Our aim is to identify and perceive the needs of a child undergoing cancer treatment, and to improve the health status through several interventions.

  1. Nutrition management services, like assessment, diet counselling, and supplementation to children and survivors, providing food and ration to families in need, and providing dieticians at our cancer treating centres.
  2. Hygiene and infection control services through educating children, parents, and survivors about Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), providing COVID protection kits, and providing equipment to hospitals.
  3. Blood support services, through blood donation camps, donor registries, and delivering blood products to children in need.
  4. Holistic Accommodation services, through CanKids' Home-Away-from-Home units.
  5. Patient transport services to and from hospitals and home, both within cities and across state borders.
Preventive
Hygiene and Infection Control: Implementing WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) components in hospitals and wards, inculcating good hygiene practices, and providing  hygiene products.
Curative
Nutrition & Blood Support: Our team of 14 dietitians and 4 coordinators manage our feeding program, provide supplements, organise blood donation drives, and raise awareness among blood donors.
Rehabilitative
Holistic Accommodation: Our 9 Home-Away-from-Home units provide out-of-station families with affordable, child-appropriate stay during treatment, as well as transport to and from care centres.
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​CanKids' Treatment and Support Program works to improve the nutritional status, survival, tolerance to chemotherapy, quality of life, and to decrease risk of infection in children with cancer in India.

Highlights From 2020-21

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CanSurvive

Through our CanSurvive project, we provide nutritional and hygiene services free of cost to children with cancer and their families. There are three main interventions under it:
  1. CanNourish Kit: Mitigating the risk of malnourishment during the course of treatment.
  2. CanNourish Family Kit: ​Monthly ration for families with little to no income sources after  moving cities for treatment.
  3. CanCovid Kit: ​Resources and hygiene habits to control and reduce infections for immunocompromised children.
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Our Research & Studies

  1. "Impact of Nutritional Support Team in Improving the Outcome of Childhood Cancer Patients"
    ​King George's Medical College, Lucknow.

  2. "The Feasibility of Delivery of PPSN Model for Nutritional Care in Childhood Cancer Patients"
    Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.​

  3. "Effects of Dietary Advice on Nutritional Status in Pediatric Cancer Patients" and "Effects of Comprehensive Oral Hygiene Practice on Mucositis, Infection, and Outcomes in Patients with Leukemia"
    Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry.

  4. "Longitudinal Assessment of the Nutritional Status of Children and Adolescents Undergoing Cancer Treatment"
    Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi.