As we mark this year’s International Childhood Cancer Day, please consider joining the World Community Grid project seeking to find childhood cancer treatments. The International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parent Organizations established International Childhood Cancer Day in 2002 to raise global public awareness about childhood cancer.
The tragic reality is that 175,000 children worldwide are diagnosed with cancer each year, and an estimated 90,000 of these children will die from the disease.
World Community Grid is running Help Fight Childhood Cancer – a project designed to help find a treatment for this dreaded disease.
The Principal Investigator for the project is Dr. Akira Nakagawara, president of the Chiba Cancer Center in Chiba, Japan. Dr. Nakagawara is also the President of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology, Asia (SIOP) – one of the driving forces behind childhood cancer awareness.
Akira Nakagawara graduated from Kyushu University School of Medicine in 1972, and took the courses of general and pediatric surgeries. He treated the patient with neuroblastoma regressing spontaneously that became his life work to unveil its molecular mechanisms.
He decided to switch his work from clinic to basic research and went again to USA in 1990 to work on molecular and genomic analyses of neuroblastoma. He returned to Japan at Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute in 1995.
Please help us in raising awareness of International Childhood Cancer Day and the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project. Then join the global effort to help find treatments for childhood cancers by contributing your unused computing power to World Community Grid.
If you already are a member of World Community Grid, click here to find out whether your computer is set up to help with this vital project. If you haven’t yet signed up for World Community Grid, please register now so you can help us provide technology to researchers so they can make the world a healthier place.
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February 15th is International Childhood Cancer Day – PLEASE HELP
The International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parent Organisations (ICCCPO), World Child Cancer and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) have issued a joint statement to coincide with International Childhood Cancer Day (15 February) highlighting the fact that these organizations are joining forces in the fight against a lack of awareness of childhood cancer.
Although cancer in children is a small fraction of the global cancer burden most of them can be cured if prompt and essential treatment is available, approximately 80% of the deaths will occur in resource-constrained settings as appropriate treatment is not available or affordable.
While there have been great advances made in the treatment of childhood cancer and subsequent improvements in survival rates, it is unfortunate that this has not reached the majority of children diagnosed with cancer annually.
“To improve upon this situation, ICCCPO, World Child Cancer and UICC are developing international medical partnerships to improve diagnosis and treatment. Through the sharing of vital expertise and skills and the utilisation of valuable support from doctors in resource-rich countries, these combined efforts are already saving lives and reducing suffering.” says Julie Torode, deputy CEO, UICC.
In the developed world children on average have a 75% chance of surviving cancer, however the situation in low- and middle-income countries, which accounts for 80% of the global incidence of childhood cancer, is very different, with only 20% of those that do receive treatment surviving as appropriate treatment is not available or affordable.
“The majority of children in the world who suffer from childhood cancer will die undiagnosed. This is largely due to the lack of awareness that some cancers are curable, poor access to information, late or no detection and lack of effective treatment”, says Benson Pau chairperson of ICCCPO.
“This year ICCCPO, UICC through the “My Child Matters” initiative and World Child Cancer will be supporting more than 40 projects in resource-constrained countries that will concentrate on the training of medical staff, the provision of infrastructure and the support of the ill child and their family,” says Gordon Morrison, chair of World Child Cancer.
On 15th February this year, organisations from across the globe will be participating in International Childhood Cancer Day, to raise awareness of the plight of children living with cancer and the imbalances that exist between the quality of care provided to children with cancer in the developed world as compared to the developing world.
“It is one of the saddest experiences to witness children and their parents in under-resourced wards unable and unmotivated to fight the battle any longer, just waiting in despair for the inevitable to happen, knowing that with funding from those able to help the outcome could be so different.” says a volunteer helping in a children’s cancer ward.
Should you wish to help contact can be made with the organisations as follows:
ICCCPO – www.icccpo.org
Upcoming events
- 4-6 April 2013, Bogotá DC (Colombia)
- 25 – 31 May 2013, Istanbul and Antalya (Turkey)
- 24-26 May 2013, in Basel
- Event Asia
- Event Africa
World Child Cancer — www.worldchildcancer.org
February 15, International Childhood Cancer Day, “My Child Matters”
February 11, 2013 by
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