Paediatric Cancer Support Groups
As a parent of a child who has cancer, remember that you are not alone. You can get help from cancer support groups, where you will be given the opportunity to talk to people who understand what you're going through. By joining a cancer support group you can spend time with people who share or understand your experience. This simple act of sharing can make an enormous difference to the way you feel.
International / European umbrella organisation for cancer in children and adolescents:
- Childhood Cancer International - CCI: CCI is the largest patient support organization for childhood cancer. It is a global, parent-driven non-profit that represents more than 170 parent organizations, childhood cancer survivor associations, childhood cancer support groups, and cancer societies, in over 90 countries, across 5 continents.
- CCI Europe: (CCI Europe, or CCI-E) represents childhood cancer parents’ and survivors’ groups as well as other childhood cancer organisations in Europe: 67 organisations in 34 European countries are members of CCI. CCI Europe works together with all relevant stakeholders for the same aim, namely, to help children and adolescents with cancer to be cured, with no – or as few as possible – long-term health problems/late effects.
National organisations for cancer in children and adolescents in Europe:
Austria
Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Udruženje Srce za djecu koja boluju od raka u FBiH (The Heart for Kids with Cancer in FBiH)
- Association ISKRA (Iskra Banjaluka)
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
- UNAPECLE (Union Nationale des Associations de Parents d’Enfants atteints de Cancer ou Leucémie)
- L’ENVOL pour les enfants européens
Georgia
Germany
Greece
- FLOGA Parents Association of Children with Cancer
- Panhellenic Association of Childhood and Adolescence Cancer Survivors (Kyttaro)
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
- Federazione Italiana Associazioni Genitori Oncoematologia Pediatrica (FIAGOP)
- Fondazione Cure2Children
- Soleterre strategie di pace ONLUS
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Romania
- ASSOCIATION P.A.V.E.L. Childhood Cancer Parent Association from Romania
- AMURADIA Association (AMURADIA)
- Asociatia Impreunã Pentru Copiii cu Cancer (IPCC)
Russia
- Social Charitable Foundation for Help to Children suffered from leukemia
- The Charity Fund The Holiday of the Life
- ISKORKA Sparkle
- Triedinstvo
- Children and Parents Against Cancer (CAPAC)
Serbia
- Nacionalno Udruženje Roditelja Dece Obolele od Raka (NURDUR)
- “ZVONCICA” Childhood Cancer Parent Organization
- “ČIKA BOCA” Childhood Cancer Parent Organization
- Udruzenje “Uvek sa decom” (Association “Always with children”)
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
- Barncancerfonden
- Barncancerfonden Stockholm Gotland
- Barncancerfonden Västra
- Barncancerfonden Mellansverige
- Barncancerfonden Östra
- Barncancerfonden Södra
- Barncancerfonden Norra
Switzerland
- Kinderkrebshilfe Schweiz
- Association Romande de Familles d’Enfants Atteints de Cancer (ARFEC)
- ZOE4LIFE
- Kinderkrebs Schweiz = Cancer de l’Enfant en Suisse = Cancro infantile in Svizzera = Childhood Cancer Switzerland (CCS)