Bone Cancer does have funding, from dog owners. Bone Cancer my son has hasn't had a change in survival rates in 35 years. Fortuitously people have greater hope for a cure for dogs then sick kids and are putting millions into bone cancer research and we hope that once they finally have something we can start the 10 year process of testing for kids.
We wouldn't have done the trial for bone cancer. Reason is that when your in a trial you have to leave the tumor in the body so they can see the effectiveness. Bone cancer is extremely painful and is only curable through surgery. Why would anyone agree to leaving the painful hard tumor in your kids body???
My son had a 15% chance of surviving 5 years when he was diagnosed with bone cancer (It was in his whole left femur and both lungs, bone cancer for some reason grows in your lungs so you have crazy bone cells growing in your lungs). He made it past 4.5 years, but it grew into both legs, his neck, and hip and had countless surgeries, radiation and chemo and it all sucked. That the funding isn't there is a constant thought in your brain at all times. Heck American Cancer Society (Largest on the planet) gave a penny per dollar raised to pediatric cancer research and then cut funding to kids camps and family resources about 7 years ago so they could focus on adult research. They finally agreed to stop using pictures of kids sick on their fund raising efforts. So yeah it is frustrating.