The Pediatric Oncology Program treats and cures children and adolescents
with cancer and blood diseases through participation in both national
and locally designed treatment protocols. Our program has active inpatient
and outpatient services. In addition to on-site clinical activities,
program members see patients in outreach settings through AHEC (Area
Health Education Centers) clinics in Wilmington. In Chapel Hill, multidisciplinary
clinics are dedicated to patients with hemophilia (through the Comprehensive
Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Center), sickle cell disease, brain
tumors, late effects of anticancer therapy, as well as general hematology/oncology.
Our clinics are staffed with social workers, psychologists, schoolteachers
and other pediatric sub-specialists in addition to the major oncology
specialties (chemotherapists; radiation oncologists; general-, orthopedic-,
and neuro-surgeons; nurses). A combined adult-pediatric fact certified bone marrow transplantation program offers autologous, allogeneic, matched unrelated donor, umbilical
cord transplants for malignant and nonmalignant diseases.
Our multidisciplinary team treats the full range of childhood cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas, and solid tumors.
