Pediatric Cancer

Why choose UCLA Health for your child's cancer care?

我们知道，发现你的孩子得了癌症对整个家庭来说都是毁灭性的打击. 这就是为什么我们的儿科癌症专家团队每天都围绕在您身边，为您提供所需的温暖和同情. 我们经验丰富的专家热衷于发现新的儿童癌症治疗方法和治疗每一种儿童癌症.

UCLA Health's Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology 是两家著名机构的一部分:皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校美泰儿童医院和皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康约翰逊综合癌症中心. We are:

Nationally recognized: U.S. News & World Report 将皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校美泰儿童医院列入2023-2024年最佳儿童医院名单. 我们的儿童癌症项目在全国儿童癌症治疗中名列前茅.

Focused on your family: 我们帮助您的整个家庭应对儿童癌症诊断带来的情感负担和压力. While delivering effective treatments and innovative therapies, we focus on your entire family's well-being.

Committed to innovative research: Besides the most advanced diagnostics, treatments and supportive care available, UCLA Health strives to bring our pediatric patients newer, more effective discoveries.

Our services

From diagnosis to treatment and beyond, 我们的护理专家提供全面的服务，包括:

Pediatric cancer diagnosis

您孩子的护理团队可能会根据您孩子的症状要求进行一项或多项诊断测试:

Complete blood count (CBC): 一种检查红细胞、白细胞和血小板是否过低的血液检查.

Advanced imaging: Tests that include X-rays and imaging studies such as CT scan, MRI, positron emission tomography (PET) scans and bone scans.

Biopsy: 提取肿瘤细胞并在显微镜下观察的一种方法.

Bone marrow aspiration (biopsy): 从臀部提取骨髓液和骨髓组织的一种测试. 我们这样做是为了检查血癌，如白血病和淋巴瘤.

Spinal tap (lumbar puncture): 一种由专家在腰部的两根椎骨之间插入一根针来抽取脑脊液和脊髓液的检查 . 我们的实验室检查了液体并检查了癌细胞的存在.

Pediatric cancer support

让你的孩子周围有一个强大的支持系统是非常重要的. UCLA Health offers:

Child life specialists: 为儿童及其家庭提供支持的卫生保健专业人员. 儿童生活专家帮助减轻儿童癌症诊断和治疗过程中经常出现的压力和焦虑.

Simms/Mann- UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology: 我们的中心提供了一个支持性的皇冠hga020电脑版来帮助减轻癌症的负担. 我们可以帮助您的家人解决您在孩子的癌症治疗过程中可能面临的挑战. Explore our services.

Cancer genetics

我们的癌症遗传学专家评估了遗传风险因素，这些因素使一些儿童更容易患某些癌症. 了解特定的遗传风险可以帮助医生更精确地为您的孩子量身定制最佳治疗方案. Learn more about the cancer genetics program at UCLA Health.

Pediatric cancers we treat

我们处于儿科癌症诊断、治疗和护理的前沿. We treat all types of childhood cancer, including:

Blood cancers: 一种通常起源于骨髓的癌症，骨髓是制造血细胞的地方. The two main types of blood cancer are:

Leukemia: The most common type of childhood cancer. It appears in the blood or bone marrow. 急性淋巴细胞白血病(ALL)是儿童最常见的白血病类型. Learn more about leukemia.

Lymphoma: 一种在免疫系统的白细胞(淋巴细胞或组织)中形成的癌症. 淋巴瘤主要有两种类型:霍奇金淋巴瘤和非霍奇金淋巴瘤. Learn more about lymphoma.

Brain and spinal cord tumors: The second most common form of childhood cancer. 由于脑瘤和脊髓瘤有许多不同类型，治疗方法差别很大. 在皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心了解更多儿童脑肿瘤治疗方案.

Neuroblastoma: A rare cancer that begins in immature nerve cells. Neuroblastoma is more common among children under 10 years old.

Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma: Bone cancers that appear in children of all ages. Osteosarcoma is generally found in the arm and leg bones, while Ewing sarcoma is commonly found in the chest, hip or shoulder blades. Both cancers cause bone pain and swelling.

Rhabdomyosarcoma: A rare cancer that begins in the cells that grow into muscles.

Retinoblastoma: A rare form of eye cancer that occurs in young children.

Wilms tumor: A rare cancerous kidney tumor that develops in young children.

Treatments we offer

从非手术选择到先进的手术和细胞疗法, 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心为您的孩子提供全方位的癌症治疗. Our pediatric cancer treatments include:

Chemotherapy: Powerful drugs that kill cancerous cells. 根据儿童癌症的类型，化疗可以单独使用，也可以与其他治疗方法一起使用.

Radiation therapy: The use of high doses of radiation to shrink cancerous tumors. Radiation therapy is a common treatment for pediatric cancers.

Immunotherapy: 激活孩子免疫系统对抗癌症的疗法.

Targeted therapy: 针对特定突变或细胞功能的口服药物，以减缓或阻止癌细胞的生长.

CAR T-cell therapy: 一种突破性的免疫疗法，用于治疗难以治疗的血癌. With CAR T-cell therapy, doctors take a blood sample, 提取T细胞并将它们送到实验室，在那里它们被编程以识别癌细胞. 经过修饰的T细胞随后被注入孩子的血液中, where they target and destroy cancer cells.

Bone marrow transplantation: A treatment that introduces healthy stem cells into the body. 这些干细胞促进新的骨髓生长，重建免疫系统. Children with cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and brain tumors often need a bone marrow transplant.

Surgery: Performed to remove tumors. Surgeons use minimally invasive techniques whenever possible.

Meet our team

在皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心，我们的儿科血液肿瘤学工作人员提供以家庭为中心的护理. We focus not only on your child's needs, 还能就您的家庭需求提供全面的儿科癌症支持.