Our story
KickCancer is the story of a Belgian happily blended family living with humour, love and small daily joys until the frightening day when they are told one of their children, has cancer. A tumour located in the foot called rhabdomyosarcoma – an indigestible name quickly changed into “foot cancer”.
It is the story of a family, which faces the first round of treatments with lousy jokes because it is sometimes best just to laugh and to keep one’s chin up. Of a family, which, after a whole year of chemotherapy, reaches the Holy Grail of complete remission and is headed back to normal life, ready to leave behind, but not to forget, its past misfortune.
But it is also the story of a family, which encounters cancer again, with nasty relapses. Motivated to do more, they embark on an in-depth research effort, learning that all the reassuring innovations one hears about cancer in the news… are for adults only and do not benefit the children with cancer. And thus, they come to the conclusion that they have to act.
Hence the creation of KickCancer!
Since its creation, KickCancer grew and several other families joined the fight against paediatric cancers. Besides, thanks to several encounters, KickCancer decided to become a genuine patients’ organisation and to create a committee that gives survivors and parents a voice.
KickCancer is a public interest foundation working closely with the Friends of the KickCancer Foundation Fund, a Fund dedicated to research in paediatric oncology managed by the King Baudouin Foundation.
