Welcome to our website
Childhood and adolescent cancer care in Ireland provides first-class diagnosis and treatment. Our cure rates at over 80% match best international standards.
Treatments are powerful and successful but can be severe. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation may seriously impact immature (and healthy) tissues, resulting in long-term late effects.
Some survivors experience medical, dental, welfare, psycho-social, fertility, employment, educational or other issues as adults.
All deserve lifelong support to monitor and protect their health and well-being.
Despite the incidence of many after-effects of treatment, there is currently (2018) no standard nation-wide provision of long-term follow-up (LTFU) monitoring and care for adult survivors of childhood/adolescent cancers in Ireland. And so we set up CanCare4Living..
CanCare4Living objectives
- To work with survivors of childhood, adolescent and young adult cancers in facilitating stress-free transition to a multi disciplinary Survivors Service.
- To provide mutual support, advocacy and referral as appropriate in helping to deal with the problems and anxieties that may arise from long-term effects of childhood and adolescent cancer treatments.
- To cooperate through CanCare4Living‘s Advisory Group, with medical, nursing and psychology specialists, and with the Irish Cancer Society and the National Cancer Control Programme to establish high-quality survivor support in Ireland.
CanCare4Living ethos
CanCare4Living strives to keep abreast of research and best practice in Survivorship Care and to cooperate with Irish and international research and initiatives where appropriate and practical. We are open and inclusive, and willingly collaborate with other groups and organisations which address similar problems and goals.
We’d invite you to sign up on our ‘contact us’ page and we’ll keep you updated our activities,
yours in hope
Patricia and Garry
CanCare4Living
OUR ROADSHOWS
View our latest roadshows! Contact us if you would like more information!
CC4L BRAY ROADSHOW – WEDNESDAY 29TH MAY 2019 @ 7PM
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LMFM – LATE LUNCH RADIO INTERVIEW WITH AOIFE MOGGAN & JULIEANNE BYRNE, MONDAY JANUARY 21ST 2019
Radio interview on LMFM with Survivor Advocate, Aoife Moggan, who dealt with…

CC4L Drogheda Roadshow – 24th January 2019 @ 7pm
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Voice for Survivors – Tuesday 13th November, Letterkenny
Our purpose is to provide a voice for survivors of childhood and…

Survivorship After Childhood Cancer – ‘The Way Forward’, Saturday 7th July, 2018, Dublin Castle
10:00hrs – 14:00hrs, Saturday 7th July 2018, Dublin Castle, followed by a…

CanCare4Living Survivors Meeting Tuesday 24 April, 2018 Harbour Hotel, Galway City
Treatment for cancer diagnosed during childhood or adolescence is now so successful…