What is Hematology and Oncology?
Hematology refers to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. Oncology refers to the area of medicine concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and study of cancer.Conditions We Treat:
- Pediatric Cancers:
- Leukemia/lymphomas
- Brain tumors (in collaboration with neurosurgical specialists at partner institutions)
- Bone/muscle sarcomas (in collaboration with surgical specialists at partner institutions)
- Wilms tumor (kidney)
- Neuroblastoma
- Hepatoblastoma (liver)
- Germ cell tumors
- Retinoblastoma (in collaboration with specialists at partner institutions)
- Anemias (acquired or hereditary)
- Immune-mediated blood disorders (hemolytic anemia, immune thrombocytopenia)
- Sickle-cell disease
- Bone marrow failure syndromes (aplastic anemia, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, Fanconi anemia)
- Clotting disorders
- Bleeding disorders (hemophilia, von Willebrand disease)
Programs & Services:
- Consultative hematology for children and adolescents
- Consults for suspected malignancies
- Inpatient and outpatient chemotherapy for children, adolescent and select young adults with cancer
- Transfusions (management of transfusion-related iron overload)
- Management of bleeding disorders
- Genetic counseling regarding inherited blood diseases
- Surveillance/monitoring of patients with cancer predisposition
- Long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors
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