Phone Numbers
Directory assistance
(203) 688-4242
Patient information
(203) 688-4177
Adult emergency
(203) 688-2222
Children's emergency
(203) 688-3333
Admitting
(203) 688-2221
Children's admitting
(203) 688-3331
Psychiatric admitting
(203) 688-9907
What sets our program apart
Through a long-standing collaboration between Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine and the Yale Cancer Center, children with cancer receive outstanding care from an experienced team in child-friendly surroundings.
One reason treatment of childhood cancer has become so successful is that children with cancer are usually treated at specialty hospitals such as Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.
These hospitals offer advanced care:
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Multidisciplinary teams of highly specialized medical caregivers work together to deliver the best possible care. |
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Children treated at Yale-New Haven have access to the latest and most advanced treatments, as well as extensive support services. |
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Our program focuses on giving personalized attention and care, which is so crucial in helping children and their families through this difficult time. |
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Our pediatricians and specialists treat a wide variety of common and rare diseases. |
Multidisciplinary team
To help guide children and their families through diagnosis and treatment,
we have assembled a team of experienced and talented doctors, nurse specialists,
nurses, social workers and child life specialists. The care team works
with the child and family to help everyone understand the disease, the
treatment involved and the adjustments that will have to be made during
treatment. Our care team is available 24 hours a day every day of the
year.
Our medical specialists include pediatric oncologists, pediatric surgeons, pediatric neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and radiation oncologists. They will keep your child's pediatrician or family physician informed during your child's treatment. In addition, there are a large number of other pediatric specialists available who can participate in the care of our patients if a special need arises.
Medical services provided
Children with cancer, coagulation disorders and blood diseases receive
comprehensive care through a wide variety of specialized services.
| Blood (hematologic) diseases | |
| Children with sickle cell disease and other sickle hemoglobin diseases and thalassemia are treated through the Yale Pediatric Comprehensive Hemoglobinopathy program. Through the Connecticut Newborn Screening Program for Genetic Diseases, patients with these diseases are identified soon after birth and medical treatment, education, counseling and support are started. | |
| Bone tumor program | |
| We are leaders in the study of the basic biology of pediatric bone tumors (osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma.) | |
| Coagulation disorders | |
| Patients with hemophilia A or B are followed in the pediatric hemophilia clinic, where their acute and long-term comprehensive care needs are managed. Diagnosis and management of immune mediated platelet disorders, as well as a specialized laboratory research program to identify patients with immune disorders, are provided. | |
| Childhood cancer | |
| Complete services for the diagnosis and treatment of all types of childhood cancer. | |
| Stem cell transplantation | |
| The peripheral blood stem cell transplantation program involves autologous (patient's own) and matched sibling transplants for blood diseases and cancer. | |
| Adoptive immunotherapy | |
| A unique experimental clinical trial of immunotherapy for the treatment of recurrent childhood tumors is available at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. The program involves vaccinating patients with a preparation derived from their own tumor to stimulate immune cells. | |
| Long-term follow-up | |
| Because so many children are now surviving cancer, it is increasingly important these children receive proper long-term follow-up. We establish a good relationship with our patients during their initial treatment that continues during years of follow-up. The unique challenges facing adolescent and young adult survivors of cancers of childhood and blood diseases are addressed during long-term follow-up. | |
Clinical trials, protocols and research
Related links
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Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University, School of Medicine |
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Yale Cancer Center |
Last revised: May 10, 2007 (dh)
