Childhood cancer affects tamariki across Aotearoa, and understanding it can help families navigate the journey ahead. Here, you’ll find key facts about different types of cancer, diagnosis and treatment, national statistics, and the support and services available to children and their whānau.
The National Child Cancer Network provides national leadership and coordination for child cancer services across Aotearoa New Zealand, helping ensure every child and young person has access to safe, high-quality, child and whānau-centred care, regardless of who they are or where they live.
The National Child Cancer Network brings together health professionals, carers and stakeholder organisations to work collaboratively and provide leadership for service development across child cancer services in New Zealand.
The National Child Cancer Network is funded by Te Aho o Te Kahu (Cancer Control Agency) with active participation and support from its lead advisers. It is a key initiative of the National Plan for Child Cancer Services in New Zealand (2010), developed by the Ministry of Health and (then) National Health Board, to provide a national framework for the delivery of child cancer services. The Network’s activity is also an integral part of the New Zealand Cancer Action Plan 2019-2029.
We are focused on delivering better outcomes.
We bring people together to connect care and facilitate best practice.
The National Child Cancer Network has helped shape a nationally coordinated model of care that delivers world-class outcomes for children and young people with cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand. Through clinical leadership, collaboration, and a commitment to continuous improvement, we work to ensure children receive consistent, safe, and high-quality care regardless of where they live.
Today, New Zealand’s child cancer services achieve outcomes comparable with the world’s leading child cancer programmes. Our approach is built on nationally agreed pathways, strong shared care partnerships, access to international treatment protocols and clinical trials, and a network of health professionals working together to deliver the best possible care.
“The National Child Cancer Network shows New Zealand’s outcomes for childhood cancers are comparable to the world-class outcomes seen in Australia, the UK, and the US. It’s a gold standard in terms of its structure, access to clinical trials, patient support and standardisation of protocols.”
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Every child with cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand receives equitable access to consistent, safe, high-quality, child and whānau-centred care, regardless of who they are or where they live.
This vision drives our work and guides our commitment to improving care, experiences, and outcomes for children and young people with cancer.
The National Child Cancer Network provides national oversight and clinical leadership for child cancer services in Aotearoa New Zealand. We champion best practice in treatment and care, support collaboration across the child cancer sector, and use evidence and data to drive continual improvement in child cancer care and patient experience.
By bringing together health professionals, healthcare services, researchers, partner organisations, and whānau, we support service development, strengthen national coordination, and promote equitable access to high-quality child cancer care across New Zealand.
Our values guide everything we do. They shape how we work, how we make decisions, and how we collaborate with health professionals, organisations, children, young people, and whānau across Aotearoa New Zealand.
