Childhood Cancer Association

The Childhood Cancer Association (CCA) believes every child with cancer, and their family, deserves the highest standard of care and practical, hands-on support from the time of diagnosis, throughout treatment and into survivorship, or bereavement.

In 1982, CCA was formed by a group of parents of children with cancer who responded to the needs they had identified themselves.
This group, with the help of Paediatric Oncologist Dr Michael Rice AM, began to build the services that now form the basis of what we do, and as such, the Childhood Cancer Association is now the key organisation in South Australia supporting children with cancer and their families.

We are currently providing support to more than 450 families.

We support South Australian families, as well as families from the Northern Territory and country Victoria and New South Wales, whose child receives treatment in Adelaide.

Our support is ongoing from diagnosis, throughout treatment and beyond; and free for the entire family – the child with cancer, siblings, parents, grandparents and extended family.

Support services are delivered by professional Psychologists and are tailor made for, and very specific to, each family’s situation and include:

– Accommodation (for country families and respite),
– Family Support Programs (including hospital visits, formal counselling and grandparent and sibling support),
– Bereavement Support & Programs,
– Educational Assistance,
– Practical and Financial support.

The Childhood Cancer Association does not receive any local or federal government funding.

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