Help for parents of children with cancer

PARENTS of children with cancer are to form a support network aimed at helping families deal with the ordeal.

Eleven families who have been meeting on days out with their children and offering mutual support on an informal basis are to set up a dedicated organisation to extend a helping hand to parents countrywide.

The families announced their intention at a special day of activities to mark International Childhood Cancer Day at the Barretstown Gang Camp centre for ill children in Co Kildare.