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Why St. Jude for your child's brain tumor treatment?

  • Our brain tumor team at St. Jude believes in hope and continues striving to find a cure for childhood brain tumors each and every day.
  • Our Pediatric Brain Tumor program is currently one of the largest in the country and we are committed not only to pursuing cures, but also to preserving the quality of your child's life. Children are not just small people. Their anatomy and physiology, and the disorders that affect them, are very unique. They require a specialized team to provide the optimal care, which is what you get from our brain tumor team at St. Jude.
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is one of the only hospitals in the country solely dedicated to pediatric cancer -- therefore, you will find a hospital and staff that has only one focus -- your child.
  • The experienced healthcare specialists in our multidisciplinary team includes neuro-oncologists, neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists who have dedicated their careers to finding cures and providing treatment for children with brain tumors. Our brain tumor physicians also work closely with support staff in rehabilitation medicine, nursing, neuropathology, pharmacy, neuro-radiology, behavioral medicine, clinical nutrition, child life and social work. These support personnel have been specifically trained in caring for pediatric brain tumor patients and assisting in meeting their special needs. 
  • The close proximity of all the brain tumor doctors involved with your child’s care will allow for direct and prompt communication between them to help ensure that your child’s needs are being met each day.
  • Our Brain Tumor Team is committed to pursuing cures as well as preserving the quality of life.
  • St. Jude pioneered the concept that hospital confinement for childhood cancers is necessary only in critical cases, so most care is delivered on an outpatient basis.
  • The Brain Tumor Team at St. Jude prides itself in developing new and innovative therapies for our patients -- our physicians and basic scientists work closely together to rapidly introduce promising therapies to the clinical setting.
  • The St Jude Brain Tumor group participates in national trials through the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and the Pediatric Brain Tumor  Consortium (PBTC), but we also offer many treatment protocols unique to St Jude.
  • After your child has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, a specialized team of doctors and medical professionals will be directly involved in your child’s care throughout therapy.
  • Our computer-based three-dimensional radiation therapy technique for pediatric brain tumor treatment minimizes damage to healthy tissue and preserves cognitive development in children.
  • Our After Completion of Therapy (ACT) program is designed to help our patients make the important transition from cancer patient to cancer survivor, and is the largest long-term follow-up clinic for pediatric cancer patients in the U.S.
  • Our basic cancer research not only saves children; it provides discoveries that are beneficial to the treatment of adult cancers as well.

 

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