Pediatric Cancer Outcomes Initiative (PCOI)

In 2010, POGO and the Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division formed the Pediatric Cancer Outcomes Initiative (PCOI). This initiative brings together two prominent players in the cancer realm to build a childhood cancer research platform to stimulate research that improves the quality of outcomes for kids with cancer and childhood cancer survivors, and reduces the overall burden of cancer on families.

Through initiating projects that increase knowledge of the outcomes for children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer, there is the opportunity to improve the delivery of cancer care in this population and to equip survivors with the information needed to make informed decisions about their health.

This initiative will:

Capture patient treatment and outcome data from 1985 to 1994 to augment POGO’s database (POGONIS);
Conduct studies directed at improving outcomes and reducing the burden of cancer on children, adolescents, and their families; and
Launch a request for proposal (RFP) focused on outcomes and impacts of pediatric cancer.

Please click HERE for more information about the PCOI granting competition.

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Pediatric Cancer Outcomes Initiative (PCOI)