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Patients at Children’s have access to the newest and best treatments because our physician-scientists are national leaders in the effort to make childhood cancer a thing of the past.
Children’s HealthLink Special: Seattle clinic cares for children who survive cancer
Dr. Eric Chow and Karen Wilkinson, a nurse practitioner, discuss how Seattle Children’s ACCESS clinic aims to help pediatric cancer survivors stay healthy for life and ease the worries of their families.
Q&A with Blythe G. Thomson, MD
What's best about working at Children’s?
Working with a group of nurses, physicians and providers who truly believe they can make cancer a curable disease. And, more importantly, working with patients and families, who are working with us to beat this disease, one patient at a time.
Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders
Seattle Children’s provides a full range of care for childhood cancer and blood disorders.
Children’s, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UW Medicine bring together their adult and pediatric oncology programs in the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). Children’s, as a nationally recognized leader in pediatric cancer diagnosis and treatment, provides the pediatric cancer care for the SCCA.
Our patients with cancer range in age from newborns to 21 years old. We see about 240 new children and teens with cancer each year. This adds up to more than 19,000 patient visits annually in our Hematology-Oncology Clinic.
In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked Children’s Cancer program as one of the top six in the country.
In 2008 Parents magazine ranked Children’s Cancer program as one of the top five in the country.
In 2007, Child magazine ranked Children’s as one of the top 10 oncology programs for children and adolescents in the nation.
Our pediatric oncologists, nurses and many other staff members are experts at working with children from infants through adolescents. In fact, adolescents with cancer tend to do better on treatment plans designed for children than on plans designed for adults.
We also have a long-term follow-up program for cancer survivors.
Hematopoietic Cell Transplants
As part of the SCCA, Children’s also cares for bone marrow transplant patients.
Children’s offers hematopoietic cell transplants to young patients through our partnership with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Each year we perform transplants for about 40 to 50 children.
Cancer Survival Rates at Seattle Children’s Hospital
For all forms of childhood cancer combined, our survival rate at Children’s is higher than the national average.
View more childhood cancer survival rates.
Clinical Trials at Seattle Children’s Hospital
Most children with cancer receive treatment in clinical trials. The staff at Children’s and our partners at SCCA make clinical trials an integral part of their work.
Learn more about clinical trials.