Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre (MCCCC) is Australia’s first dedicated comprehensive cancer centre for children. It represents a new era of collaboration between clinicians and scientists, which promises to transform experiences and outcomes for children with cancer and their families.
The MCCCC builds on a 40-year partnership between Children’s Cancer Institute, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network including the Kids Cancer Centre, and UNSW Sydney. It aims to deliver the best outcomes for children with cancer through the full integration of research, clinical care and education.
Featuring world-class facilities and state-of-the-art technology, the Centre has the capacity for 900 dedicated child cancer professionals, working with the common goal of improving care and outcomes for children with cancer.
The Centre is transforming the cancer journey for children and their families — from diagnosis and treatment through to survivorship — while at the same time accelerating research discovery and its translation into improved clinical practice.
The MCCCC includes:
- a 900-strong community of dedicated child cancer professionals: clinicians, scientists, and allied health workers
- state-of-the-art, technologically advanced wet and dry laboratory spaces
- education, training and research to develop the next generation of interdisciplinary leaders and workforce
- new inpatient units designed with a child and family focus
- a new outpatient treatment centre with the capacity to deliver a range of therapies, now and into the future.
The partners
Clinical care
Bringing together clinicians, scientists, and allied health workers under one roof, MCCCC features child, adolescent and family-focused treatment centres with the capacity to deliver a range of therapies, now and into the future, as well as education and training facilities.
“It’s about thinking the whole spectrum of care for children’s cancer. From prevention, acute care, survivorship and long-term health outcomes.”
- Dr Richard Mitchell, Director, Kids Cancer Centre at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick
Research
Featuring state-of-the-art research laboratories, the MCCCC seamlessly integrates medical science with care, allowing for an exchange of information that rapidly translates discoveries from the lab bench into the clinic and back to the bench again, for the benefit of all children with cancer.
“Here we will innovate, push the boundaries, narrow the gap between science and the clinic, and deliver treatments to children that produce lasting benefits.”
- Professor Louis Chesler, Executive Director, Children’s Cancer Institute
Families
The journey of each child and their family is at the centre of the MCCCC’s model of care. As well as providing the highest quality inpatient facilities and family-focused amenities designed specifically for kids and adolescents, the Centre runs a dedicated outreach program to enable the provision of care to children across the state.
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MCCCC Strategy
The inaugural Minderoo Children's Comprehensive Cancer Centre strategy represents a commitment by the partnering organisations to accelerate, integrate and magnify transformational improvements to child cancer care.
Through an interdisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem, the community of researchers, scientists, clinicians and educators will improve children’s cancer outcomes at an accelerated pace to end the burden of cancer for kids and young people across Australia.
MCCCC Strategy 2024-2026
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