Seattle Children's
Seattle Children's provides the pediatric-care component for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, a collaboration that also includes the Hutchinson Center and UW Medicine.
Children's comprehensive cancer program delivers superior patient care, advances new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical referral center for the largest landmass of any children's hospital in the country (serving Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho). Children's physicians treat more pediatric cancer cases than any other provider in the region, with more than 230 new cancer patients per year.
Consistently ranked as one of the best children's hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report, Children's is internationally recognized for advancing discoveries in cancer, genetics, immunology, pathology, infectious disease, injury prevention and bioethics. Children's also serves as the primary clinical, research and teaching site for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Research expertise
Children's has a long history of investment in and support of both clinical and basic-science cancer research.
Cancer research activities include cooperative group clinical trials through its memberships in the Children's Oncology Group, New Advances in Neuroblastoma Therapy Consortium, and the newly constituted Therapeutic Advances in Childhood Leukemia Consortium, as well as investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored studies.
Children's has been particularly active in the development of protocols for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia and solid tumors, including brain tumors.
Additional cancer research efforts at Children's focus on the use of peripheral blood stem cell-supported chemotherapy, the treatment of infants with malignant brain tumors, and the investigation of new therapeutic and supportive care agents for patients with Ewing's Sarcoma, neuroblastomas and other types of cancer.
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