For parents & AYA survivors
The children's hospital is discharging them. We are the next door.
Life Spark is the first branded adult survivorship home built for pediatric cancer survivors aging into adult care. Cardio-oncology, fertility, cognition, endocrine, and second-cancer screening — coordinated to COG-LTFU, held in one portable chart, honored by any clinician who takes over next.
68% of AYA survivors report no written transition plan (COG-LTFU). You should not be figuring this out alone.
The risks nobody warned you were coming
Cure is the beginning. Late effects are the rest of a life.
Cardiotoxicity
Anthracyclines and chest radiation raise lifetime cardiomyopathy risk 5–15×. Needs baseline echo, then serial imaging on a COG-LTFU cadence.
Second cancers
Radiation fields and alkylator exposure raise breast, thyroid, sarcoma, and colorectal risk decades later. Screening starts younger than the general adult schedule.
Fertility
Alkylators and pelvic radiation compromise ovarian reserve and spermatogenesis. Fertility counseling belongs at transition, not later.
Endocrine
Cranial radiation and total-body irradiation drive growth-hormone deficiency, hypothyroidism, and early menopause. Yearly labs, life-long.
Cognition & mental health
Post-treatment cognitive change and anxiety are underdiagnosed. Screening tools and warm hand-off to psycho-oncology, not a referral packet.
Bone, hearing, dental, renal
Every organ system carries a delayed risk profile that a general PCP was not trained on. We hold the map.
How the transition works
Four steps. A plan they can carry the rest of their life.
- Step 01
Import the treatment summary
We accept the pediatric hospital's discharge summary, EMR export, or a scanned packet. We build a portable, patient-owned chart your child can carry for life.
- Step 02
Build the COG-LTFU surveillance plan
Every exposure maps to a schedule of labs, imaging, and specialist referrals — spelled out year by year, not buried in a PDF.
- Step 03
Meet the adult team
Cardio-oncology, endocrine, fertility, cognitive, and mental-health touchpoints — coordinated. No more you-figure-it-out.
- Step 04
Hand off to any clinician, anywhere
Move for college or a job? The chart moves with your child. Any new PCP gets a one-page summary and the full plan.
What parents ask us
The honest answers, before you have to ask twice.
+What age do you take?
We work with survivors from age 16 through adulthood. We start transition conversations at 16–18 so nothing gets dropped at the pediatric-hospital discharge.
+Do you replace their oncologist?
No. We are the survivorship home for the years and decades after active treatment. If cancer recurs, you go back to oncology — we make sure that referral happens fast.
+Is this covered by insurance?
We accept most commercial plans and offer a transparent membership option for services insurance doesn't cover, like extended coordination visits and treatment-summary building.
+What if we live in a state without a Life Spark clinic yet?
Our licensed states are listed on the Locations page. For states without a clinic, we offer a survivorship-plan build and coordinated referral to a local specialist network.
+Can our current pediatric oncologist stay involved?
Yes — and we want them to. We send every note back to the referring pediatric team unless you tell us not to.