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German Childhood Cancer Foundation
Last update on: 01/20/2009
The German Childhood Cancer Foundation was formed in 1995 by the governing body of regional parent intitiatives - the German Leukemia Research Aid, Aktion für krebskranke Kinder incorporated.
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Their goals are the improvement of:
- Chances of a cure
- Treatment methods
- Quality of life of children and adolescents with cancer
The German Children's Cancer Foundation aids and funds
- multi-centered treatment optimisation studies, in particular studies which dedicated themselves to the treatment of brain tumours with the "Behandlujngsnetzwerk HIT"
- patient-orientated clinical research projects such as: studies for the development of completely new forms of treatment as well as the analysis of treatment concepts, which focus on the limitation of treatment related side effects and long term effects, the research of clinical pictures or cases with low healing expectations up until now, projects from areas of psycho-social treatment of children with cancer and their families
- information-material for affected families and the concerned public
- families with a child suffering from cancer in a disease related predicament
- the Wild Pirate Camp in the proximity of Heidelberg a, in Germany unique. This leisure time facility is unique in Germany. It helps children's cancer patients to regain courage and strength in order to find their way back to every day life after defeating the disease.
„The challenge of the upcoming years lies in deciphering the biological factors of those forms of cancer difficult to treat, in order to enable a chance of survival to all children".
Jens Kort,
managing director of the German Childhood Cancer Foundation, project partner
The foundation, based in Bonn, invests in this area of research annually about two to three million euros.
