Aims and objectives
The goal of the Organisation of Care & rEsearch for children with cANcer in Europe (OCEAN) project is to map the organisation of care and research in Europe. It is also to provide an overview of the paediatric cancer centres that deliver care and research for children and adolescents with cancer across Europe and show the inequalities at the time the EU is building a network of comprehensive cancer centres for adults with cancer.
OCEAN’s project objectives are defined around two working packages:
1. Describe the Organisation of care for children and adolescents with cancer in countries affiliated with SIOPE and CCI Europe, EU and non-EU
2. Describe the Organisation of clinical, translational and basic research for children and adolescents with cancer across Europe
Participating countries
38 countries (EU and non-EU) covering the SIOP Europe and CCI Europe member countries (except Ukraine, Russia and Georgia) participate in the OCEAN Project.
The first outcome of the project was the integration of the OCEAN project results into the Childhood Cancer Factsheet, which was published on December 5th, 2023, by the European Cancer Inequalities Registry.
The OCEAN Project was in part performed within the UNCAN.eu CSA project.
Important Subpages
Two twinned projects currently concentrate the efforts of our Policy team. These projects are being worked on in parallel because they both address inequalities across Europe. They are the Organisation of Care & rEsearch for children with cANcer in Europe project (OCEAN) and the National Cancer Control Plans Project (NCCP).
Both projects anticipate having manuscripts published within the next few months.