Childhood cancer
The road to treatment is part of the illness.
Everlasting Hope Philippines exists for families who must leave home to reach care. This page explains that barrier. It is not medical advice.
Statistics below are adapted from the public Everlasting Hope website as of 2026-09-08. Confirm the figures and cite sources before production. This page does not diagnose, treat, or replace a clinician.
- A family somewhere in the world hears a childhood cancer diagnosis
- About every 80 seconds
- Childhood cancers worldwide that remain undiagnosed, worse where care is scarce
- Nearly half
- Families in the Philippines who receive that news
- About 13 each day
Why so many never start treatment
About 400,000 children worldwide receive a cancer diagnosis each year. In places where treatment is far away or priced beyond a day’s wages, the outcome depends on whether the family can reach the hospital and stay there.
Many families in the Philippines live on very little each day, often in communities with no local cancer treatment. The missing piece is not only medicine. It is the bed, the fare, and someone who already knows the route.
Distance
Families in rural communities often travel 4 to 12 hours by bus or boat to reach cancer care.
Cost of the trip
A place to stay, food, and transport can stop treatment even when a hospital will see the child.
The whole family
A diagnosis pulls parents, siblings, and income into the same wait. Support has to include them.
Care for the family, not only the chart
Everlasting Hope offers free shelter, transport to medical care, nutrition, and medical assistance, plus emotional and spiritual support. The public site describes this as care given through the love of Jesus. Help is for families navigating childhood cancer. It is not a promise of a medical cure.