ON-COME is a European initiative dedicated to transforming supportive care for children, adolescents and young adults with cancer.
Funded by the EU4Health Programme, the project aims to improve how mental health, cognitive wellbeing, and nutritional needs are addressed during cancer treatment.
Although survival rates in pediatric oncology have greatly improved in recent decades, nearly 14,000 young people are diagnosed with cancer every year in Europe, and many still face significant emotional, psychological and nutritional challenges throughout their treatment journey.
Supportive care services—such as psychological counselling, neurocognitive rehabilitation and nutritional guidance—remain unevenly available and often lack standardized protocols across Europe.
ON-COME was created to address these gaps and ensure that every young cancer patient receives high-quality, holistic and equitable supportive care, regardless of where they live.
Cancer impacts far more than physical health. Young patients frequently experience:
While medical treatments continue to advance, the supportive care systems around them have not kept pace. As a result, children and adolescents across Europe receive very different levels of psychological and nutritional support depending on their location.
ON-COME responds to this urgent need by designing a standardized, sustainable model for integrating psychosocial, neuropsychological and nutritional interventions into pediatric cancer care—supported by digital tools, professional training, and policy guidance that can be adopted across European healthcare systems.