Awareness

ICCD 2022 Press Release

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 them have joined forces to launch an Advocacy Toolkit to help advance more care for children

2019 Beating Cancer Manifesto SIOPE and CCI-E

Paediatric cancer remains a major public health and societal issue in Europe: • Each year more than 35,0001 children and young people are diagnosed with cancer; • More than 6,0002 young patients die of cancer each year, and cancer remains the first cause of death by disease in Europe in children older than 1 year; • There will be nearly half a million childhood cancer survivors by 2020 – 2025 • Over two-thirds of childhood cancer survivors experience long-term health and psychosocial problems due to their disease and treatment which may be severe and affect their daily life and participation as EU citizens; • While improvements have been achieved for some childhood cancers over the past years, there has been little progress in patient survival for difficult-to-treat paediatric malignancies, and too many young lives are still lost to the disease; • There are substantial inequalities in access to the best available care and expertise across Europe causing up to 20%4 differences in survival rates among European countries.

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