Treatment of childhood cancer can't stop

Receiving a Cancer diagnosis is a tough moment to all children and their relatives when they arrive at GRAACC´s Hospital, due to all the changes and uncertainties that lies ahead of them. Adding a Covid-19 pandemic scenario to that diagnosis, poses an extra challenge. This was the case of young Luize, who was only 6 months old when she received confirmation that had cancer, initiating the treatment during the pandemic. Luize, back then living in South of Brazil, was routed to GRAACC´s Hospital in São Paulo, a national reference in pediatric oncology for 30 years that has the mission to offer every chance of cure to children and teenagers with cancer, providing life quality and reaching an average of 70% cure cases.

In GRAACC, the patient will find a complete infrastructure, from Medicine Excellency to a humanized care performed by a multidisciplinary team of specialized professionals. The Hospital provides differentiated treatment with divided ambulatories according to the type of cancer, assuring that an experienced team specialized in that kind of tumor attends the patient. Moreover, all the resources to diagnose and treat the tumor like specialized facilities, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, Bone marrow transplant, surgery center, pediatric ICU, among others, are all centralized in one place.

During this pandemic period, GRAACC´s Hospital relied on the charity from people and companies around the world, which altogether provided Luize a specialized and complete oncologic treatment. GRAACC exists to treat Luize and the other four thousand children that arrives at the Hospital every year. As without donations this mission would not be possible, the donors are a crucial part of this story.