Our Partners
World Child Cancer draws on the experience and expertise of the world’s most successful child cancer support organisations.
The International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parents Organisations
(ICCCPO)
ICCCPO is the world’s advocate for children with cancer and their families and the original founder of World Child Cancer. ICCCPO has 105 member organisations in 65 countries. Marianne Naafs-Wilstra, Simon Lala and Benson Pau are experienced parent/carer advocates having had personal experience of child cancer. They sit on the Executive Committee of ICCCPO and are World Child Cancer Trustees ensuring that the emotional welfare of the child and the practical concerns of their families are kept at the forefront of every project.
“Providing practical, emotional and financial support for children with cancer and their families is a vital part of the treatment process. Without this kind of support many families in developing countries are unable to continue difficult and often lengthy treatment. Parent support groups can make all the difference by providing ‘someone to talk to’, giving clear and accessible information and offering financial assistance.”
Marianne Naafs-Wilstra, Executive Director Dutch Childhood Cancer Parent Organisation, past President of ICCCPO and World Child Cancer Trustee.
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
St Jude was founded in 1962 to find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. It is internationally recognized for its pioneering work and treats children from across the States and worldwide. St Jude has helped develop protocols which have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20% to more than 75%. The current St Jude survival rate for acute lymhoblastic leukamia is 94%. St Jude has experience running outreach projects in developing countries with highly successful results. Over a ten year period St Jude worked with Hospital Bloom in El Salvador and increased survival rates from virtually nil to over 50% and reduced abandonment of treatment from 60% to only 10%. Dr Raul Ribeiro, Director of St Jude International Outreach Programme is a Trustee of World Child Cancer.
“Paediatric cancer is highly curable. About 50% of pediatric cancer can be cured with relatively simple procedures that have been known to the medical field for many decades. When this knowledge is transferred and utilised via twinning programs, it makes a dramatic and sustainable difference.”
Raul Ribeiro, MD
The International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)
SIOP is an international network of over 1,200 specialist child cancer doctors and nurses. The Society works to improve treatment of child cancer by developing new curative and palliative therapies. It promotes access to the latest treatments through networking conferences and meetings held worldwide. The President of SIOP, Professor Maarten Egeler is a Trustee of World Child Cancer.
“The International Society of Paediatric Oncologists is committed to seeing further improvement in survival rates for children and better equity of treatment around the world. SIOP and its members have supported programmes in underdeveloped countries for many years aiming to improve survival rates. SIOP wholeheartedly welcomes and supports the work of World Child Cancer.”
Professor R. Maarten Egeler, MD, PhD, President of SIOP and World Child Cancer Trustee.