National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is an annual national health campaign organized by major childhoodcancer organizations to increase awareness ofpediatric cancer and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.
The White House lit up in gold lights in honor of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in 2021.
In September 2019, SenatorJoe Manchin (D-WV) introduced aresolution to recognize September 2019 as "National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month" after being inspired by a student atGeorge Washington High School, inCharleston,West Virginia. The resolution passed with unanimous consent on September 26, 2019.[1]
Apresidential proclamation recognizing National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month was first issued in September 2012 by PresidentBarack Obama.[2] Subsequent proclamations were signed by President Obama in 2015 and 2016.[3][4]
Prior to the proclamation, theUnited States Senate passed the Allard-Clinton "National Childhood Cancer Awareness Day" Resolution on May 23, 2008. The resolution, introduced by United States SenatorsWayne Allard (R-CO) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), recognized September 13, 2008, as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Day.[5]
An initial proclamation was signed in 1990 byPresident George H. W. Bush, naming October as National Awareness Month for Children with Cancer.[6]
