“Your child has cancer,” is not a diagnosis any parent wants to hear. And yet, over 15,000 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer annually, many of them in South Florida. The third-largest state in terms of pediatric population, Florida accounts for 6 percent of all new pediatric cancer cases in the country. According to a 2023 study, incidences of childhood cancers have increased slightly since the early 2000s, with leukemia, brain tumors, and lymphoma being the most common forms.