Proclamation No. 2024-16 Childhood Cancer
City of Huntsville
Proclamation No. 2024-16
WHEREAS National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is an initiative started by President Obama in 2011 with goals: to increase awareness, rally support, and improve the dismal childhood
cancer survival rates in the United States; and
WHEREAS Malachi Williams, a strong, brave 4-year-old boy, was diagnosed with Pleuropulmonary Blastoma (PPB), which is a rare childhood cancer occurring in the chest; and
WHEREAS Pleuropulmonary Blastoma is included in 0.25–0.5% of all primary lung neoplasms. Although it is a rare diagnosis, PPB is considered the most common childhood lung cancer; and
WHEREAS Pleuropulmonary Blastoma occurs in boys and girls equally. PPB mainly occurs in younger children, typically before the age of 5 years, but rarely teenagers or young adults are
diagnosed with PPB; and
WHEREAS I encourage our community to observe Childhood Cancer Awareness and support Malachi Williams and his family in this cause that so deeply impacts families in every community
across our country.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Russell Humphrey, Mayor of Huntsville Texas, do hereby proclaim,
JUNE 1, 2024
CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARNESS DAY
in honor of
Malachi Williams