To enable us to achieve our mission, we need to set up an extensive information base, which we plan to do in the form of the CanKids National Resource Centre for Childhood Cancer
Our aim, through this Centre, is to cover all aspects of Childhood Cancer, including information dissemination - for professionals, support services, parents, teenagers and families. This would be the first centre of its kind in India.

What is cancer? What is the type of cancer I or my child have? What are the symptoms? What is its treatment and side effects? What are the latest advances and research? Where are the treatment centres? Where can we, as professionals, or a family find the information, or have access to international and local literature?

What can I expect? Where can I look for support - Socio-Economic, and emotional support? How do I tell my child? Are there others in the same boat as us? How did they cope? We want to help and share our knowledge and experiences with others? What do I do? Where do I go?

Every year 250,000 children get cancer, worldwide. In India an estimated 30-40,000 new cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed each year. Unlike adult cancers, the causes of most childhood cancers are as yet unknown.
We know that worldwide 70-75% of childhood cancers are curable because of better response to treatment and protocols.

However, the sad fact is that, in our country, 70-80% children still die of cancer because of late diagnosis, poor compliance with the prolonged treatment regime, and the completely prohibitive cost of treatment, which compels the family to abandon treatment and tragically sometimes the child itself.

At CanKids, we have set ourselves the goal to create an Information and Resource Centre in our own country. We aim to build a library of books and articles from all over the world, including our own. We aim to translate books available both in our own country and internationally, into Hindi, and make them available to other organizations to translate into their own languages/vernaculars.