The National Children's Cancer Society (NCCS) is an American charity based in

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...

, which provides emotional, financial and educational support to children with cancer, their families and survivors. The group was initially founded in 1987 to help pay for the then relatively new

bone marrow transplantation Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood in order to replicate inside of a patient and to produc ...

procedure for children, which was at the time not covered by most American health insurance. Since that time, insurance now covers the procedure, and the scope of the charity has expanded into other areas.National Children's Cancer Society: About Us
/ref> The charity reports that over its history it has given "$63 million in direct financial assistance to more than 40,000 children," in addition to assistance through other programs.

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