The Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung (German Child Cancer Foundation) especially supports research projects close to clinics and patients, amongst them around one quarter of all German studies concerning the therapy optimisation in child cancer medicine. Together with its parents associations, the foundation is Germany's greatest booster in the area of paediatric oncology. One of the most important tasks of the foundation is the financial support for families stranded due to their child's cancer. Furthermore, its work comprises elucidation, advice and information as well as the organisation of numerous events for parents and their ill children.