The International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parent Organisations (ICCCPO) is a worldwide network of organisations of parents of children with cancer.  

It was founded in May 1994 in Valencia, Spain, and in 2009/10 has membership of 132 organisations from 78 countries. 

To coincide with International Childhood Cancer Day on 15th February 2010, ICCCPO, World Child Cancer, and the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), have issued a joint press statement.  

Please see it here.  

This web site is intended to be a major resource for parent organisations, and individual parents, throughout the world.  

It contains:

- information about parent organisations around the world;

- a wide range of articles relevant to childhood cancer, and to the establishment and running of parent groups; 

- and it provides links to sites which contain information of value for parents and their families.  

World Child Cancer is an initiative by ICCCPO to be able to provide funding to improve the treatment and care for children with cancer around the world, and especially in less developed countries where access to effective treatment may be very limited or even non-existent.  The organisation was registered in the UK in 2007.  

World Child Cancer is a international charity dedicated to improving cancer diagnosis and treatment for some of the world’s poorest children.  The charity facilitates and funds international twinning partnerships between hospitals in resource-rich and resource-poor countries, as well as partnerships between parent support groups.   World Child Cancer is working in Africa, South America and Asia where it is creating new centres of excellence in the treatment of child cancer with the help of voluntary support of some of the world’s leading paediatric oncologists.   Relatively small levels of funding make a dramatic and sustainable difference to survival rates, in part due to the voluntary support of medics which is valued at least three times the value of every Euro, dollar or pound donated. 

For more details of the exciting new prospect, please visit the World Child Cancer website.    

A new handbook has been added to the site (Sep 2008).

It is called "Your Group is not Alone", and is intended to provide information and advice to people who are starting new support groups for childhood cancer, especially in developing countries.  To download a copy of this handbook, go here.  

To find out more about ICCCPO (go here); 

  - for details of the benefits of membership (go here); 

  - for contact details of the Executive Committee, plus membership and sponsorship applications, (go here)

For links to other sites relevant to Childhood Cancer (go here).  

For the compliation of many articles of interest to parents and parent groups, and for previous ICCCPO Newsletters (go here).  

These include the SIOP Psychosocial Guidelines; the "Guidelines for Standards of Treatment and Care" for Childhood Cancer, developed by ICCCPO and SIOP; and the "Warning Signs for Childhood Cancer", adopted by SIOP.   

For details of Meetings of interest to Parents (go here), 

  and of future events, including International Childhood Cancer Day (go here).  

"Through my Eyes" has been an event run from 2005 to 2007, where children with cancer have taken photographs of their world, as they see it.  

  The posters from the 2006 "Through My Eyes" Exhibition are now available on this site.  Go here.  

  The posters from the 2005 "Through My Eyes" exhibition are also available.  Go here

  The Information Pack for this years "Through My Eyes" project is now available on this site.  Go here.  

  The "Through My Eyes" Media Release for 2007 is available.  Go here

ICCCPO World Map

A map showing all of the countries in the world with organisations who are members of ICCCPO is available as a pdf.  Go here.