We offer treatment options designed especially for children, adolescents, and young adults. We can provide patients with access to the newest drugs and other therapies through a wide range of clinical trials.

We are particularly proud of our new Musculoskeletal Oncology Program, a multidisciplinary group of doctors, nurses, and other specialists from five different departments organized to diagnose and treat cancers of the bone and muscles in children, adolescents, and young adults (up to age 35).

For children who may benefit from a bone marrow or stem cell transplant to treat his or her disease, Duke offers a world-renowned Pediatric Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant (PBMST) Program, the largest dedicated pediatric transplant program in the nation.

While we work to treat each disease aggressively, we also take care whenever possible to prevent or treat many of the long-term side effects of common therapies.

For example, we offer fertility preservation strategies for children whose treatment might alter their ability to have children of their own. We also offer a long-term cancer survivor clinic to address the special needs of childhood cancer survivors.

Long-Term Cancer Survivor Clinic

Extraordinary advances have propelled the cure rate of childhood leukemia from 30 percent in the 1970s to more than 90 percent today.

Similarly, more than 70 percent of all children and young adults are cured of their primary tumors, in large measure because of the science developed at specialty centers like the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology.

These successes have led to a population of adults suffering the after-effects of the very treatments that cured their disease. At the Duke Long-Term Cancer Survivor Clinic, one of the nation’s only multidisciplinary clinics for long-term survivors of cancer, our goal is to study and alleviate the symptoms that affect these cancer survivors later in life.

Our clinical and research programs are designed to collect data retrospectively and prospectively in large groups of patients. We analyze the data and then deliver specially designed medical care to our patients based on this information.

The clinic serves patients under the age of 25 who have been off treatment for five years or more. Clinic patients see a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, and health care professionals, and can see more than one specialist at the same time without making multiple appointments. The clinic also includes an adult internal medicine specialist, thus ensuring a seamless transition with age.

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Driscoll, Timothy
• Friedman, Henry S.
• Gururangan, Sridharan
• Kreissman, Susan G.
• Kurtzberg, Joanne
• Linardic, Corinne M.
• Martin, Paul L.
• Rosoff, Philip M.
• Wechsler, Daniel S.

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center
  2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710