Sentences with phrase «including pediatric brain»

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In particular, our pediatric radiation oncologists at Floating Hospital for Children offer special expertise in the management of brain tumors, including medulloblastoma, with a combination of post-operative radiotherapy and multi-agent chemotherapy.

According to the American Cancer Society, the most common pediatric neoplasms are leukemia, brain and spinal cord tumors, neuroblastomas, Wilms tumors, and lymphoma, including both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin.

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital has expertise in treating the full range of pediatric brain tumor types, including:

Research from the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified new mutations in pediatric brain tumors known as high - grade gliomas, including tumors like diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma pictured in this MRI.

Our groundbreaking Pediatric Mi - Oncoseq Program is an internationally known precision oncology program focusing on the genetic analysis of pediatric cancer patients including in children with malignant brain tumors, and determines whether targeted treatments may be available based upon their personalized tumor genomic sequencing profiles.

With scholars and clinicians spanning disciplines that include child development, neuroscience, education, child psychology, public health, and pediatric psychology and medicine, the content covers nearly every angle of how children learn, from the social - emotional perspective to the biological changes that happen in the brain as children age.

Cases I have represented the Defendant on include Verlade v Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust [2017] a high value brain injury claim relating to pediatric intensive care which was successfully defended and AS v Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust [2017] a significant Bolam judgement concerning pioneering techniques used in pediatric cardiac surgery in 1998 in which liability was repudiated on the grounds that there was no established body of opinion on brain cooling at the time.

Compelling challenges include (1) the need for more extensive training for all health professionals on the adverse effects of excessive stress on the developing brain, as well as on the cardiovascular, immune, and metabolic regulatory systems (the technical report23 is a start); (2) the significant constraints on existing, office - based approaches to fully address the new morbidities effectively; (3) the relatively limited availability of evidence - based strategies, within the medical home and across the full array of existing early childhood service systems, that have been shown to reduce sources of toxic stress in the lives of young children or mitigate their adverse consequences35; and (4) the financial difficulties associated with the incorporation of evidence - based developmental strategies into the pediatric medical home.