Parents & children Professionals About us Would you like to help? Contact AND We use cookies to remember settings and to make your visit run more smoothly. In addition, we also use cookies to improve the website and to collect and analyze statistics. Read more about cookies × Home NL Professionals Academy Outreach program Outreach program Here the chance of a cure is 75%. Not even 10% there. Every year, more than 300,000 children are affected by cancer worldwide. Most of them (80%) live in poor countries. The chance of a cure for childhood cancer in the poorest countries is less than 10%, a stark contrast to the 75% cure rate for children with cancer in rich countries such as the Netherlands. Although basic health care in poor countries is slowly improving, resulting in fewer children dying from infections, malnutrition and dehydration, cancer in children is on the rise as a cause of death in these countries. World Child Cancer The Netherlands The Princess Máxima Center is the initiator of the World Child Cancer-NL Foundation, which aims to train and advise healthcare professionals in developing countries in pediatric oncology. Doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and other experts from the Princess Máxima Center teach, on location or in the Netherlands, advise, conduct research and contribute to protocols and guidelines to increase the chance of recovery in poor countries. We call this our Outreach program. Knowing more? Read here how it works Would you like to help? About World Child Cancer-NL Our data Gertjan Kaspers, pediatric oncologist and director of Outreach Princess Máxima Center: Our partnership with the hospital in Kenya has increased survival rates from less than 10% to more than 30% for certain tumor types. My short-term ambition is that more than half of all children with cancer will survive this hospital. Can you help us make that happen? Share this page on social media Twitter Facebook Linkedin Directly to: Practical information Information for referrers Contact Bank account IBAN NL63 RABO0174941137 BIC RABONL2U Building together on the best care & research for children with cancer Enter your email address to receive our newsletter E-mail address Disclaimer Chamber of Commerce 54327946