Cankids Survivor Passport2Life Clinics
Cankids, a national society for Change for Childhood Cancer, launched
the Passport2Life (P2L) Project in recognition of the lack of
information available to childhood cancer survivors and the absence of
systematic follow-up. Through the P2L project, Cankids aims to help the
enrolled survivors to know the potential risk of late side effects and
how they can cope up with them.
Cankids has developed two different strategies for conducting the
survivor P2L clinics to ensure that the maximum numbers of survivors are
covered, and at the same time accommodating the needs of treating
doctors at different hospitals. Strategy-1 (P2L - C2H) currently running
in 12 locations: - Whereas ”C” denotes Cankids and ”H” denotes treating
Hospital. Cankids collaborates with the treating hospitals to run the
Passport2Life clinic and workshops in the respective hospital.
Strategy-2 (P2L- C2S) currently running in 2 locations: - Whereas ”C”
denotes Cankids and ”S” denotes Survivor. Cankids conducts the P2L
clinics and workshops for those survivors whose hospital are not
providing late effect clinic, or survivors not able to reach out the
treating centres, or survivors are older and don’t want to go back to
the pediatric unit or survivors have moved to other cities.
A document (Survivor Passport) is completed and provided to the survivor
(Figure 1). Details are also entered onto
www.survivorp2l.org, which functions
as an online passport and community portal.