Videos
Taking On Challenges: Surgical Oncology Options for Solid Tumors
Surgery often plays a critical role in a child’s overall cancer treatment. CHOP's pediatric surgical oncology team consists of experts with extensive experience in various types of cancers, including neuroblastoma, brain and bone tumors, as well as other rare and hard-to-treat cancers. Because of the number of cases we see, our pediatric oncology surgeons have a true appreciation of the issues they may encounter during a complex surgery to resect a child's tumor.
Change the Course: Advanced Options for Your High-Risk Patients
Change the Course: Advanced Options for Your High-Risk Patients, is an 18 minute video designed to help referring oncologists and families better understand the different treatment options that are available with for patients with difficult or hard to treat cancers.
Advancing Pediatric Cancer Care: Proton Therapy
Proton therapy is an innovative form of radiation treatment that allows for more conformed radiation doses delivered to cancerous tumors .
Proton Therapy to Treat Pediatric Brain Cancer
Proton therapy, now offered at CHOP, is an alternative to traditional radiation treatment for childhood cancer. The brain is very sensitive to radiation treatment, and children whose brain tissue is radiated at a young age can suffer from cognitive, learning, and developmental challenges later in life. Proton therapy targets only cancer cells, significantly reducing the amount of healthy tissue exposed to radiation.
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