Surviving Survival

Symposium on improving the mental health of childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors

Vienna (OTS) – Childhood Cancer International – Europe and MedUni Vienna invite you to sign a declaration to improve the mental and psychosocial health of young cancer survivors at a symposium on June 27, 2024.

Childhood Cancer International Europe (CCI-E) and the Medical University of Vienna (MedUni Vienna), University Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, are hosting a groundbreaking event on Thursday, June 27th, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Albert Hall in the eighth district: prominent personalities from oncology, politics and non-profit organizations will be in the As part of the symposium, sign a declaration on psychosocial care for young cancer survivors, so-called “survivors”. In this Vienna Declaration emphasizes the importance of improving psychosocial care for young survivors and proposes a list of steps to be taken to achieve this.

After two previous successful symposiums in Vilnius (Lithuania) and Barcelona (Spain), this is the third event of the EU co-financed project EU-CAYAS-NET (European Network of Youth Cancer Survivors, www.beatcancer.eu), as part of the European Cancer Plan. This is what this is about first and only EU project led by a patient organizationnamely from the Vienna-based, pan-European children’s cancer aid umbrella organization CCI Europe.

The focus of tomorrow’s Vienna symposium will be on challenges related to mental health and psychosocial care after cancer in children, adolescents and young adults. The results on this topic developed in EU-CAYAS-NET will be presented publicly for the first time, gaps in the current care of survivors will be highlighted and a package of measures to overcome these challenges for national health systems will be presented. This will be followed by a round table discussion with leading experts from pediatric oncology, patient and survivor organizations, as well as national politicians and representatives of the European Commission. The event concludes with the ceremonial signing by the participants of the package of measures proposed by CCI-E and MedUni Vienna, the Vienna Declaration.

CCI-E is committed to a Europe in which every child with cancer receives the best possible care. Access to optimal psychosocial follow-up care for all European children, adolescents and young adults who have survived cancer is a crucial part of this.

Carina Schneider, CCI Europe: “The psychosocial effects of cancer in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood are still often underestimated and neglected. Comprehensive, age-appropriate psychosocial care must be part of the aftercare of those affected. . Together with the relevant actors, we must ensure that “The right structures must be created to be able to provide the support we need and that is exactly what we hope to initiate with the Vienna Declaration.”

Join us in this crucial moment and help bring comprehensive psychosocial aftercare into the focus of cancer treatment for children, adolescents and young adults.

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Symposium on improving the mental health of childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors

Datum: June 27, 2024, 12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m

Ort: Albert Hall, 1. Stock
Albertgasse 35, 1080 Vienna, Austria

Url: https://ccieurope.eu/event/surviving-survival-symposium-on-mental-health-of-youth-cancer-survivors/