Childhood Cancer Survivors face late and long-term sideeffects psychosocial, employment, and insurance issues and often lack consistent long-term follow-up care.At present in developing countries like India survivorship services are an underdeveloped area. KidsCan Konnect- Survivor group (KCK) of Cankids…Kidscan, strives to improve services available to survivors. In order to address the systemic service and knowledge gap experienced by our survivors, KCK has developed an innovative survivor passport program to educate survivors about late effects, and help them with proper documentation and the need for regular follow-up.
Late effects in childhood cancer survivors may affect the following:
Type of surgery
Chemotherapy type, dose, and schedule
Type of radiation therapy,part of body treated, & dose
Stem cell transplant
Use of two or more types of treatment at the same time
Blood product transfusion
Chronic graft-versus-host disease
Complications during treatment
Child's gender
Health problems before being diagnosed with cancer
Child’s age and developmental stage
Length of time since diagnosis and treatment
Changes in hormone levels
The ability of affected healthy tissue to repair itself
Certain changes in the child's genes
Family history of cancer or other conditions
Health habits
Type of cancer
Where the tumor is in the body
How the tumor affects the way, tissues and organs work