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.