Cancer and Blood Disorders

Children's Hospital at Erlanger
910 Blackford Street
Chattanooga, TN 37403

What is Pediatric Hematology/Oncology?

Pediatric oncology is the medical subspecialty focused on the research, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood cancers. Pediatric hematology is the related subspecialty focused on treating childhood diseases of the blood or blood forming organs.

How We Improve Care as Part of the Children's Oncology Group

Unlike other areas of medicine, most children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer are treated on nationally-sponsored studies. We are committed to providing improved care for these children through the Children's Oncology Group (COG), a consortium of about 250 medical centers throughout the world. Uniform treatment plans agreed upon by these investigators allow efficient data collection, treatment implementation and dissemination of results for all types of childhood malignancies. By treating children in clinical trials, COG members have increased the cancer cure rate for children from less than 10 percent 40 years ago to over 80 percent today.

Conditions We Treat:

Acute and chronic anemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Brain tumors
Ewing’s sarcoma
Hemophilia and Von Willebrands disease
Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)
Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP)
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH)
Neuroblastoma
Osteogenic sarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies
Thalassemia
Thrombosis
Wilms tumor

Among the Procedures We Offer Are:

Bone marrow aspirates (BMA)
Bone marrow biopsies (BMB)
Gene therapy
Immunotherapy
Intrathecal (IT) chemotherapy
Lumbar punctures (LP)

Resources

Children’s Oncology Group – Our partnership with the world’s childhood cancer experts
Survivorship Program - Multi-disciplinary follow-up care to help patients and families after cancer treatment