Despite significant progress in treating childhood cancers, survivors often face adverse long-term health effects such as learning difficulties, fatigue, and an elevated risk of secondary cancers. At ACCESS, we believe accessible care options should be available for patients during their cancer journey and for survivors long after.

To bring this project to fruition, the Psychosocial & Survivorship research theme will initiate a needs assessment to identify tools for psychosocial distress screening. This will be done through:

• Conducting a scoping review to synthesize the literature available on distress screening.
• Providing recommendations on distress screening and needs assessments.
• Piloting the implementation of distress and needs screening at Canadian sites.

Through this project, the theme will be able to increase awareness of the need for psychosocial screening in pediatric cancer, inform and begin to mobilize efforts to implement such screening into everyday practice across Canada and empower patients with accessible tools.