Provincial Pediatric Oncology AfterCare Program

On average, 80% of children with cancer survive, but approximately 60% of survivors are faced with significant late effects as a result of their disease and its treatment. These can include sterility, cardiac complications, neurocognitive impairments, secondary cancers, and more. 

POGO launched the provincial pediatric oncology AfterCare Program, in collaboration with pediatric and adult cancer centres across Ontario in 2001. The aftercare program ensures systematic follow-up of survivors across all ages. AfterCare clinics promote health and health education, monitor survivors at regular intervals for long term effects from treatment so that these potential long term effects of treatment can be identified as early as possible.

Surveillance and monitoring can ultimately contribute to future advances in treatment for childhood cancer. For example, if a particular form of treatment is found to cause a certain long term effect in cancer survivors, current treatment practices can be modified so that future survivors will be less likely to develop the identified long term effect from treatment.

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• Click here to view the 2009 AfterCare Education Day Presentations