New hope for cancer: Why Munich children survive more often - “Others can only dream of that’. “Initiative for Children with Cancer Munich eV” supports families in need financially, pays staff in the children's cancer ward at the Munich Clinic Schwabing.

In Pakistan and Indonesia, for example, less than 30 percent of children survive their cancer. International collaboration is particularly important in pediatric oncology in order to develop new diagnostic and treatment options. Here, scientists from partner countries in South America, Asia and Africa visit the Heidelberg laboratories.