With the Princess Máxima Center backpack, patients can undergo treatment while playing

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 1.40 pm

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UTRECHT – The Princess Mxima Center in Utrecht is now giving young cancer patients a medicine pump that fits in a backpack. This allows the sick children to just play and go to school.

These are patients with neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer, who until now had to stay in the hospital for eight hours a day for immunotherapy for five days. Thanks to the backpack, admission is often no longer necessary, says the Princess Mxima Center. The treatment now also takes longer, so that the side effects of the drip with the drug dinutuximab are less severe.

About thirty children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma every year. According to the center for pediatric oncology in Utrecht, they even had to go to the United States for treatment a few years ago. The mobile pump allows the patients to undergo immunotherapy in their familiar environment.

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