Kids' Guide to Cancer app for iPhone and iPad

Get answers to the big questions about cancer! Learn about cancer treatment and how to support your family. The Kids’ Guide to Cancer app, from children’s cancer charity Camp Quality, is an educational app designed for children who have been diagnosed with cancer, or who have a parent, sibling, friend or loved one with cancer. 

Find out about the different types of treatments including chemotherapy and radiotherapy and learn about all the people and things you might find in hospital. Watch animated videos of other kids sharing their stories about their cancer experience. 

Get started learning about cancer. 

Let’s learn – Learning Library 

What is cancer? How do you get it? Get answers to the most common questions about cancer. Plus, find out about the different types of cancer, and the medicines and treatments – including chemotherapy and radiotherapy. 

Learn about all the different things you might see in hospital. And meet the people who help, from school counsellors to surgeons, oncologists to psychologists. 
 
Watch short, animated videos of kids sharing their own cancer experiences. 

How can I help? 

Get ideas for how you can help loved ones who have cancer, whether it’s mum or dad, a brother or sister or a friend. 
 
Engage with us! 

This is for grownups to find out how they can access other programs and services designed to help kids and families facing cancer. Find out more about counselling services, the experiences of other parents, school programs and our Happiness Hub. Or ask Camp Quality how we can help. 

Features 

* Suitable for kids up to 15 years old. 

* Answers the most common questions about cancer. 

* Age-appropriate information about types of cancer, hospitals and medicines, people who help, and types of cancer treatment. 

* Ideas on how kids can help their loved one with cancer. 
 
* Animated videos of children sharing their own cancer stories. 

* Available on mobile and tablet. 

* Available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi and Arabic. 
 
* Great educational tool for a child who has been diagnosed with cancer, or who has a parent, sibling, friend or loved one diagnosed with and undergoing treatment for cancer. 
 
* Parents and carers can access more information on how Camp Quality can help. 

The latest version of the Kids’ Guide to Cancer app was funded by our Innovation Partner, Fujitsu. 

Camp Quality’s programs and services are created specifically to support children aged up to 15 years, who are dealing with their own cancer diagnosis, or the diagnosis of someone they love, like a brother, sister, mum, dad, or carer. https://www.campquality.org.au/