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CCF plans for school, more services for children
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“After helping children battle cancer for nearly two decades, the Children’s Cancer Foundation (CCF) is now making big plans for the next five years.
...Explaining the rational behind their plans, CCF chairman Dr Tay Miah Hiang pointed out, contrary to popular belief, cancer in children is much more curable than adult cancer ... We must go all out.
...For instance, he said the cure rate for leukaemia, the most common form of cancer among kids, could be up to 90 per cent for children. In adults, the cure rate could be less than 10 per cent.
...Tay, an oncologist at OncoCare Cancer Centre, cites the negative impact on children when a parent has cancer.
...Sometimes the children are being neglected so they go through some emotional changes, (turning) rebellious, so we need to address these issues with them as well, he explains.
...One possibility is to categorise adult cancer patients into curable and non-curable patients and start by concentrating on the children of those with terminal diseases, he says.
...The foundation also wants to help develop services in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, by sending their staff over to help improve services.
...Singapore is a regional hub for people to come in for treatment and we also provide psycho-social support to these patients. But sometimes when they go back, everything goes back to zero, says Tay.
...It's good for foreign patients and also adds meaning to CCF employees' work, he adds.
...The foundation provides not just financial aid to needy patients but also supports families through therapeutic play or art or music therapy, among other ways. It also offers support in three stages, the treatment phase, recovery phase and, for some, the bereavement phase."
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