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Childrens Center for Cancer & Blood Diseases

Physicians at the Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases (CCCBD) have led the way in advancing cancer care for infants, children, and adolescents.  The CCCBD has a comprehensive clinical and research program that is the largest of its kind in the western United States and Childrens Hospital’s faculty is nationally recognized in their areas of expertise.  Further, Center physicians have led the way in research regarding the psychosocial aspects of childhood cancer. 

Clinical programs are aimed at providing state-of-the-art diagnosis, treatment, and psychosocial care, as well as long-term management of children with cancer or blood diseases.  The CCCBD is one of the few centers in the country capable of piloting new and innovative treatment programs for children with previously resistant cancers and blood disorders.  The Center has an onsite Blood Donor Center  that provides all blood components, advanced diagnostic laboratories, and state of-the-art imaging facilities that include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine. 

Our Accomplishments

Size and Impact

• One of the two largest hematology-oncology programs in America for children
• One of the largest and most influential members of the Children's Oncology Group (a cooperative of 237 of the most perstigious pediatric research centers in the world)

Leadership

• Provides the most advanced treatments available anywhere
• Supports children and families through pioneering programs such as the HOPE Program, a national model of care
• Serves as the pediatric component of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Committed to Advancing Care for Children

• Integrates laboratory and bedside expertise to solve medical problems
• Pioneered treatments that are now used as the standard of care for childhood cancers

Our Programs

• HOPE (Hematology-Oncology Psychosocial and Education) Program
  The HOPE Program provides a full-range of comprehensive support services for children, adolescents, and families treated in the Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases.  HOPE creates new approaches to integrated patient and family services, delivers professional and community education, and coordinates psychosocial and health outcomes research within the Center.

  • Teen Impact
  • LIFE (Long-term Information and Follow-up) Program