Aster Volunteers Head Start
The Paediatric Brain Tumour Initiative aims at giving children affected by brain tumours a chance to lead a full life. The initiative aims to provide comprehensive multidisciplinary care for children of all ages with brain tumours, psychosocial and developmental support during and after treatment, increasing community and primary physician awareness to facilitate early detection, raising standards of clinical outcomes by national and international collaboration and research, and to help arrange support for the economically disadvantaged.
Why Head Start?
There is a global need to build a comprehensive system that supports paediatric brain tumour care, and drives research forward while building a hub for the network of physicians, specialists, institutions, donors, and patients and their parents to contribute to and benefit from.
Head Start Charter
- Provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for children of all ages with brain tumours
- Create ecosystems that support patients and their families throughout the treatment process including counselling, periodic post-treatment reviews, periodic neuro-developmental and endocrinological assessment, and monitoring of academic performance
- Increase community awareness and sensitizing primary care physicians to facilitate early detection
- Facilitate research in childhood brain tumours by collaborating with national and international experts and institutions.
- Help financially disadvantaged parents fund the treatment of their child
Brain tumours don’t allow children to live full lives making the best of their opportunities. Find out about its challenges, impact and treatment.
Watch Dr. Dilip Panikar talk about what we stand to do and what we are trying to achieve.