Hematology/Oncology
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
| Appointments: |
504-896-9740 |
| Office Hours: |
8 am until 4:30 pm Monday Through Friday |
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Lolie Yu, MD, Director
Renee Gardner, MD
Tammuella C. Singleton, MD
Maria Velez, MD |
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Hospital provides comprehensive care with a team approach. Faculty from LSU Health Sciences Center works with a team of specialized professionals including surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers and others to provide up-to-date, compassionate “total care” for the child and family. The hospital has dedicated areas for inpatient and outpatient care, providing treatment for children with cancer, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, and other blood disorders.
The program is a part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) approved LSUHSC/Children's Hospital Minority CCOP, and is a member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG)—a nationwide Children’s Cancer Study Group. The program is recognized by COG and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) as well as the National Marrow Donor program and is affiliated with the CIBMTR and Louisiana’s registries.
Pediatric surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, pathology, radiation oncology, diagnostic radiology, and other pediatric subspecialists and laboratory facilities for studies of genetic disorders, bleeding disorders, and hemoglobinopathy are all available at the center. Radiation oncologists work closely with physicians at the center and work out of Touro Infirmary, which is near Children’s Hospital.
Management expertise includes, but is not limited to:
- Leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumor, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma and other childhood cancers
- Anemia, including sickle cell anemia
- Bleeding disorders, including ITP and hemophilia
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (related and unrelated donors)
In 2005, more than 846 patients received treatment at the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. The center followed 269 oncology patients and 575 hematology patients, including 245 with sickle cell disease.
In 1989, Children’s Hospital was approved as a Pediatric Hospital Cancer Program by the American College of Surgeons. Our program is affiliated with the Louisiana State University’s Minority Community Clinical Oncology Program (MCCOP), which is accredited by the National Cancer Institute. Children’s Hospital is also a member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), a national study group of premier research institutes in the United States and Canada. Our hospital has the only approved COG hematopoietic stem cell transplant program in Louisiana.
Though patient care is our primary focus, Children’s Hospital is an active participant in clinical and basic research of childhood cancers and blood disorders.
Our physicians have access to the most modern therapies for treatment of malignancies and blood disorders in children.
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is also a teaching facility for medical students, nursing students and those completing graduate and postgraduate training. Our program has the only approved, dedicated hematology/oncology fellowship training in the state of Louisiana. This program is part of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) Department of Pediatrics and the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center of LSUHSC.
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Hospital comprises the largest group in the Gulf South of hematology and oncology physicians and nurses dedicated exclusively to pediatrics. They are specially trained to care for the unique needs of children and work side by side with a medical staff of more than 200 pediatric specialists, including pathologists, radiologists, oncology surgeons and neurosurgeons.
Our pediatric experts realize that caring for children with malignancies and blood disorders commands a delicate balance of medical care and emotional support. Support for patients and their families is provided by child psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. Other members of the multidisciplinary team include hematology/oncology hematopoietic stem cell transplant coordinators, pharmacists, dieticians, laboratory technologists, and physical, occupational, speech and hearing, music and recreation and child life therapists.