After Diagnosis: How to Cope Author: Dr. Arturo Osorio No parent ever wants to hear their child has cancer. The initial shock and fear can make it seem like your entire world has been turned upside down in an instant. Each year, around the globe over 400,000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with some
Dear Friends, Childhood Cancer International, as the global patient support organization for childhood cancer, is deeply saddened and worried with what is happening in Ukraine. We hear from our local members that children from the Paediatric Oncology wards are in the basement of hospitals or underground shelters, and therefore not receiving the proper care.
Better Childhood Cancer Survival is achievable #ThroughYourHands -- Amsterdam, Netherlands – Geneva, Switzerland, 15 February 2022 – International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD), held each year on 15 February, is an important day for children with cancer across the world. This year, children and families affected by childhood cancer and the healthcare professionals who look after
February 15th is INTERNATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER DAY. On this day, the web-based Tree of Life (for both mobile and desktop users) is launched; find it here https://iccd.care and take impressive actions. On this day as well, WHO officially launches the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer Technical Package in International Childhood Cancer Day virtual event from
My Name is Antonia. I am 11 years old and I live in the middle of Germany with my parents and my two sisters. Actually- I am a pretty normal Girl who loves to go to school and play with other kids. Sometimes my Disease comes in between those things.
Hard work! My name is Alan Romo I am part of the staff of Casa de la Amistad para Niños con Cáncer in Mexico City. We are thankful for the opportunity to share with all the global community of CCI our hard work continue helping children’s and young’s with cancer in Mexico, and even harder
Life in Lockdown is nothing new for children with cancer During lockdown the Child Cancer Foundation of New Zealand interviewed a father from one of the families they support. They asked him how he and his family were coping during lockdown and what advice they could share with the public around life in lockdown. Here
叔叔，阿姨，你们要记得吃饭呀！ Dear Aunt or Uncle, Please Have Your Meal on Time Yuran小朋友是一名来自中国武汉的抗癌小勇士，也是和润保芳德长期联系尤为紧密的恶性实体肿瘤患儿之一。 Ran Yu, an anti-cancer hero from Wuhan, one of the survivors keeps good relationship with Rainbow Foundation, Beijing, China. 从病发确诊到如今结疗，他对待癌症的态度有着天翻地覆的转变。新冠状病毒爆发期间，他身在武汉这个疫情状况较为严重的地区，却不忘为我们这些远在北京的大人们加油打气。他常常问我们早上好和晚上好，惦记我们有没有按时吃饭，叮嘱我们要注意身体。 Since the day been diagnosed with cancer to the day end of treatment, Ran has a totally eye sight with cancer. During the
A wonderful survivorship story about patient empowerment from India For the last 50 years, CPAA has disbursed funds to patients who approach us at our branches in Mumbai, Delhi and Pune. Over the past two years, we have started supporting treatment of patients in far flung cities and towns all over India including Hyderabad, Coimbatore,
A “Survivors group meeting” organized by the Austrian Survivors group and Österreichische Kinder-Krebs-Hilfe (Austrian Childhood Cancer Parents Organisation) took place in Vienna on the 22nd of November 2014. More than 25 participants from Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Slovakia came to visit Austrian survivor group representatives and some of those even enjoyed pre-Christmas
