Sentences with phrase «treating pediatric cancers»

An oncology clinical trial tests new methods of treating pediatric cancers, such as new drug therapies, new approaches to surgery or radiation or new methods for biologically targeted therapy.

The department's history of strength in treating pediatric cancers also led to a collaboration with Children's National Medical Center Hospital.

Not exact matches

Juno also has a few other compounds in early stages of development aimed at treating NHL, pediatric ALL, multiple myeloma, ovarian & breast cancer, AML, lung cancer, and more.

«I am calling upon him to take those donations out of his $ 27 million campaign coffer and donate them to a worthy institution that treats children with life - threatening allergies who can't afford EpiPens or with pediatric cancers like leukemia and Hodgkin's who are suffering because of generic drug shortages that he causes,» Long said in a statement.

«It's a completely different way of treating cancer,» says pediatric oncologist Stephan Grupp, who directs the Cancer Immunotherapy Program at the Children's Hospital of Philadecancer,» says pediatric oncologist Stephan Grupp, who directs the Cancer Immunotherapy Program at the Children's Hospital of PhiladeCancer Immunotherapy Program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

These common chemotherapy drugs are used to treat a wide variety of pediatric cancers, including leukemias and cancers of the eye and nerves.

Abatacept, when added to the standard drug regimen used to prevent GvHD, reduced the occurrence of acute, grade III - IV GvHD from 32 to 3 percent in pediatric and adult patients who underwent mismatched unrelated donor stem cell transplants to treat advanced cancer and other blood disorders.

«At the very least, this work should remind clinicians that we need to look beyond family history in treating and counseling pediatric cancer patients and their families.»

In the Comer Emergency Department, pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, nurses, social workers and other professionals will treat the most complex cases — not only those with traumatic injuries but also patients with all types of severe illnesses who need emergency specialty care, including patients with congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis, cancer and neurological disorders.

The facility, which will be located at the Sibley Memorial Hospital on the Kimmel Cancer Center's National Capital Region campus, is scheduled for completion in 2019 and will include space and staff for treating pediatric patients.

Quality of Life Clinic at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's have helped thousands of survivors of pediatric cancers, treated at the Institute and at other hospitals in New England and elsewhere, to manage the long - term consequences of their disease.

Wharam treated all types of cancer, but as the clinic expanded and more radiation oncologists were recruited, he made pediatric cancers his primary focus.

Patients with pediatric blood cancer treated at UT Southwestern and Children's Health also have access to:

UT Southwestern Medical Center, in partnership with Children's Health, which is located on the same Dallas campus, has an excellent team of pediatric oncologists who treat pediatric blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma with the latest techniques.

I am truly humbled to be named the Embrace Kids Foundation Chair in Pediatric Hematology / Oncology established in Dr. Kamen's memory, so that I can continue to carry his vision forward in advancing pediatric cancer research and keeping that «human» connection in treating the «whole» patient and not just the disease,» reflects Cole.

Disparities in outcomes for pediatric cancer patients treated in Hawai'i: comparing Hawai'i residents to children referred from the Pacific Islands