At Duke, we are dedicated to offering children and adolescents with cancer the most effective care available in an atmosphere of caring and compassion.

Our world-renowned surgeons, radiologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists, psychologists, and other caregivers work as a team to devise the best treatment plan for each individual child in close consultation with his or her family.

Duke is also a world leader in pediatric bone marrow and stem cell transplantation as well as home to one of the nation’s only multidisciplinary clinics for long-term survivors of cancer well into adulthood.

Specific pediatric cancers treated include:

• Acute leukemia
• Brain and spinal cord tumors
• Hodgkin's disease of childhood
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of childhood
• Neuroblastoma
• Wilms' tumor
• Retinoblastoma
• Ewing's sarcoma
• Osteogenic sarcoma
• Rhabdomyopsarcoma
• Soft tissue sarcoma
• Langerhans' cell histiocytosis
• Hepatoblastoma
• Germ cell tumors