Projects

• FAQ How to be Thalassemia-free with Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)

  The answers have been prepared by
  - Dr. Lawrence Faulkner, Cure2Children Scientific Coordinator
  - Dr. Pietro Sodani, Consultant Hematologist and BMT expert, member of the Cure2Children Advisory Board

• Projects

  

  More than 50,000 children have thalassemia major in Pakistan (photos), for many bone marrow transplantation offers the only chance of survival. Cure2Children has supported the cure of an initial group of children and gave a critical contribution to the start up of two new transplant units managed by Pakistani professionals.

  Cure2Children, with SOS Infanzia nel Mondo, Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, and the Italian peace-keeping force, has supported the treament of the first children with leukemia in Kosovo (photos).

   

• Projects

  Our goal is to facilitate the management of children with leukemia, cancer and other severe diseases in developing countries by providing professional education opportunities, qualified medical advice, drugs, medical equipment, family support programs, web-based patient management tools, support to create national networks and associations dealing with childhood cancer and blood disorders, and

• CDATA project
  

  Clinical setting is a peculiar and complex environment. Traditional approach is based on a relational database model and it soon becomes a maintenance nightmare when data forms change fortnightly. Cdata tries to address these issues and aims to be a simple and flexible tool to build a clinical content repository and a web collaborative workspace.

• Open source development

  Our aim is to evaluate the feasibility and usefulness of open source software applied to knowledge transfer, continuing medical education, collaborative clinical databases, decision support systems and quality management in the context of collaborations with medical institutions in developing countries. 

   

• Projects about childhood cancer

  Several institution in Pakistan manage children with cancer and leukaemia. In order to participate in international studies and increase awarenes both in the scientific community and in the Pakistani population, it is very important that the pediatric onco-hematology professionals establish a formal association fostering a collaboration among different centers. The potential patient load is extremily high as it is the potential experience and knowledge that this group could develop and contribute to the international community.

• Support to the Pakistan pediatric oncology groupSeveral institution in Pakistan manage children with cancer and leukaemia. In order to comply to participate to international studies and offer the best possible care, it is very important that the pediatric oncohematology professionals establish a formal association fostering a collaboration among different centers. The potential patient load is extremily high as it is the potential experience and knowledge that this group could develop and contribute to the international community.
  C2C would like to support the establishment of a formal organization, a website, data management. In the contest of a collaborative network C2C would like to provide any expertise or equipment that will foster the availability of priority diagnostic standards such as t (9;22) and t (4;11) traslocations detection or flow cytometry for minimal disease evaluation.
• A pediatric tumor tissue bank in Pakistan This project would like to provide technical support and equipment for the establishment of a tissue bank of pediatric leukaemia and solid tumor samples. This is very important to both patients than may require diagnostic confirmation and any research project involving childhood cancer in Pakistan and internationally.