Nurturing Care: Our Multidisciplinary, Family-Centered Approach
Families and patients dealing with a diagnosis of pediatric cancer or a blood disorder can rely on Driscoll Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center for the most advanced treatments available for infants, children and adolescents.
Team
Along with parents, who are integral to patient care, our team consists of:
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Nurse case managers
- Social workers
- Dietitians
- Pharmacists
- Child life specialists
- Rehabilitation therapists
- Chaplains
- Psychologists
Support
The Cancer and Blood Disorders Center offers patient and parent support every step of the journey. The following resources are available:
- Monthly support group gatherings
- Personalized assistance from social workers
- Pre-teen and teen camps
Treatment
Our specialists provide diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic management plans for infants, children and adolescents with malignant diseases and blood disorders, such as:
- Leukemia
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Hodgkin’s disease
- Wilms’ tumor
- Neuroblastoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Ewing sarcoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Brain tumors
- Acquired and hereditary anemias
- Neutropenia
- Thrombocytopenia disorders
- Abnormalities of platelet function
- Hereditary and acquired coagulation abnormalities
- Histiocytic disorders
- Sickle cell disease
- Hemoglobinopathies
- White blood cell disorders
- Von Willebrand disease
- Hemophilia
- Other bleeding and clotting disorders
Services
Our specialists provide diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic management plans for infants, children and adolescents with malignant diseases and blood disorders, such as:
- Lab
- Radiology services
- Medication administration and management
- Blood-product transfusions
- Enrollment in clinical trials for the most cutting-edge treatment and support from experts nationwide
- Certified chemotherapy nurses
- Social work services for assistance with the difficulties presented by the stress of cancer treatment
- Child Life services
- Access to more than 30 pediatric subspecialties at Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Research
Clinical research offers hope for a cure. This research saves lives and changes the odds for kids now and far into the future.
Driscoll Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center is proud to be affiliated with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), whose research has changed childhood cancer. What was an almost incurable disease 50 years ago now has a survival rate of nearly 80 percent.
COG is a network of more than 230 member institutions that treat patients with specific cancer diagnoses the same way according to detailed protocols. Treatment and results data are analyzed, reviewed and shared worldwide. Through our affiliation with COG, Driscoll Children’s Hospital can offer our patients the opportunity to participate in clinical trials, including Phase 2-4 therapeutic, non-therapeutic, biology and long-term follow-up studies.
Driscoll Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center is proud to be affiliated with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), whose research has changed childhood cancer. What was an almost incurable disease 50 years ago now has a survival rate of nearly 80 percent.
COG is a network of more than 230 member institutions that treat patients with specific cancer diagnoses the same way according to detailed protocols. Treatment and results data are analyzed, reviewed and shared worldwide. Through our affiliation with COG, Driscoll Children’s Hospital can offer our patients the opportunity to participate in clinical trials, including Phase 2-4 therapeutic, non-therapeutic, biology and long-term follow-up studies.
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Cancer and Blood Disorders Locations
Driscoll Children's Hospital - Corpus Christi
Address
3533 S Alameda St
Corpus Christi,
TX
78411
Phone
(361) 694-5000
Hours
24hrs
Cancer and Blood Disorders
1st Floor
Phone
(361) 694-5311
Fax
(361) 808-2069
Hours
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Specialty Center - Brownsville
Address
5500 Frontage Rd #77
Brownsville,
TX
78526
Phone
(956) 698-8600
Fax
(361) 808-2076
Hours
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Cancer and Blood Disorders
Phone
(956) 688-1208
Fax
(956) 683-9160
Hours
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Specialty Center - McAllen
Address
1120 E Ridge Rd
McAllen,
TX
78503
Ste 220
Phone
(956) 688-1200
Fax
(361) 578-0680
Hours
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Cancer and Blood Disorders
Phone
(956) 688-1208
Fax
(361) 808-2159
Hours
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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