International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parent Organizations
The International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parent Organizations (ICCCPO) is an organization for those affected. It was in 1994 in Valencia (Spain) of parents with cancer or formerly with cancer children founded. An annual meeting has been held since 1994. International Childhood Cancer Day ICCD was launched by Childhood Cancer International (CCI) in 2002.
International cooperation
The goals of the association are the exchange of information and experiences between parent groups around the world and with everyone else involved in the treatment and care of children with cancer in order to provide the best possible access to treatment and care for children with cancer around the world guarantee. An important area is the cross-border exchange of research results and new therapies.
Millions fighting childhood cancer
German scientists and aid organizations occupy a leading position in the international fight against childhood cancer. In 2017 alone, the German Cancer Aid and the German Children's Cancer Aid Foundation invested around eight million euros from donations in projects to fight cancer, announced the Chairman of the Board of Cancer Aid on International Children's Cancer Day 2018. Cancer Aid is currently funding a central research project "Bone Cancer in Childhood" (Ewing's sarcoma) with around 671,000 euros.
How about cancer
On the International Children's Cancer Day launched by the ICCCPO in February 2019, the German Cancer Aid Foundation appealed to all adults to speak openly about cancer in a dialogue with children and adolescents. Krebshilfe supports this important task with the current book "How about cancer?" By the doctor Sarah Herlofsen. It helps children and adults to understand the complicated disease. The German Cancer Aid, founded by the doctor Mildred Scheel in 1974, had made the fight against cancer in children a focus from the start. Their goal was to get cancer out of the taboo zone and to bring it into society as well as an international exchange of information on cancer research and practical help for those affected. Today her daughter Cornelia Scheel motivates other people to deal openly with the cancer problem. She wrote the foreword to the informative book with explanatory illustrations. Her mother succumbed to cancer herself in 1985. Therefore, she knows, "that silence can be very stressful, especially for children and young people", Cornelia Scheel explained about her permanent commitment to cancer aid. The book was published in cooperation with the German Cancer Aid and is available in their shop.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of February 14, 2018 on International Children's Cancer Day , accessed on February 16, 2018
- ↑ [1] , accessed on February 15, 2019