World Child Cancer @ TFN 1 July 2010

World Child Cancer was established in 2007 by a team of international child cancer experts to redress the global inequality in the provision of treatment for children with cancer. The charity improves diagnosis and treatment for children with cancer in low income countries. We do this by developing twinning partnerships between teaching hospitals in resource rich and resource poor countries. We aim to increase survival rates of children with cancer by facilitating the creation of new centres of excellence in the treatment of child cancer in developing countries. The charity harnesses the voluntary support of some of the world's leading paediatric oncologists.

World Child Cancer is working with the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana to create a new centre of excellence in the treatment of child cancer and to increase survival rates from less than 5% to 50% over five years. World Child Cancer has twinned the Korle Bu Hospital with the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh to exchange vital medical expertise and skills.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Ghana
• Health
• Cancer
• philanthropy