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The Stephen T. Marchello Scholarship Foundation is a non-profit organization for the purpose of allocating post secondary scholarship monies to survivors of childhood cancer.

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In the U.S. there are 8,400 new cases of cancer each year in children between the ages of newborn and fourteen. Of these, there are 1,400 deaths. One third of those deaths are from Leukemia. The two major causes of cancer in children are leukemia and brain cancer. One statistic that is amazing is that there is a significant number of young adults, under the age of nineteen who get uterine or ovarian cancer, and also who get prostate or testicular cancer. Some cancer treatments last over three years. Often surgical procedures and extensive rehabilitation are necessary. Often the parents need to put their careers and jobs on hold in order to give the support necessary to their children who are undergoing treatment. In most cases, teenagers who are going through chemotherapy cannot work during the summers to save money for college.