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Others interested in spreading the word about helping children with cancer and blood disorders in developing countries.This is an opportunity we cannot miss!! WHY????Because advances in information and communication technologies, the changing world economy and increasing attention to social investing, may create an opportunity for forward leaps in the number of children that can be cured from cancer worldwide. In fact, approximately 90% of the pediatric population live in developing countries many of which are drawing increasing attention to diseases historically considered low priorities due to lack of resources and/or awareness. Pediatric oncology, by its nature, is made of a wide range of conditions, each one occurring relatively rarely.The different types of childhood malignancies represent as a whole less than 4% of all cancers. As a result, the professional community dealing with these problems often relies on “standards of care†that are based on retrospective studies or other soft evidence. Difficulties in gathering sufficiently large patient series may also play a role in the modest advances made in the fight against childhood cancer in recent years. Moreover, biomedical progress is generating a growing number of potentially more effective and tolerable treatment options such as cell therapies, differentiating agents, monoclonal antibodies, molecular targeted therapy, etc…, each one needing separate validation in the pediatric age group. Hence the urgent need to encourage any effort that might pull together pediatric hematology-oncology professionals. Dynamic internet tools such a user-driven content management systems and relational databases, e-learning and telemedicine may take advantage of the possible scarcity of infrastructures and induce major advances in patient care. C2C seeks to promote these tools as well as to provide free expert opinions and technical support.