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| Where can you find us? | E4 Paediatric Medical Day Unit (PMDU) |
| Who to contact with questions? | Telephone: 519-685-8500 extension 57396 |
| Who to contact when you are making a referral? | Telephone: 519-685-8500 extension 57396 |
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Our Program
For over 30 years Children's Hospital (CH), located within the London Health Sciences Centre, has provided family-centred care to children with cancer through an interdisciplinary team approach. Since its inception, the childhood cancer program has been designed to meet the needs of children and their families through a holistic approach. The childhood cancer program (also referred to as the paediatric oncology program) endeavors to provide high quality, family-centred care to enable children to not only survive their illness but also to sustain normal growth and development and family unity.
The team provides comprehensive childhood cancer care which includes the following services:
- Medical consultation, diagnosis and disease management to all southwestern Ontario children, families and physicians
- Medical on call coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, within Children’s Hospital including service to inpatient units, emergency, critical care, newborn nurseries, satellite clinics and laboratories
- Expanded Role Nursing support for all Children’s Hospital inpatient and outpatients including childhood cancer management
- Radiation Therapy in collaboration with London Regional Cancer Centre
- General Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Neuropsychological Assessment
- Psychosocial Support
- Art Therapy
- Child Life Programs
- School reintegration
- Patient Outcome/Continuous Improvement Activities
- Satellite Clinics in Kitchener, Ontario and in Windsor, Ontario
- Aftercare Clinic Program in collaboration with the Paediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
- Clinical Trials Participation in Provincial and International Networks
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Bravery Beads Program
Children and adolescents treated for cancer at the Children’s Hospital are invited to participate in the Bravery Beads Program.
At diagnosis, children receive a “starter necklace” which included a cord and beads to spell their name. hildren can then collect beads to acknowledge the many experiences they face over the course of treatment for childhood cancer. Each child can create a unique necklace of beads, with each bead representing different elements of the treatment process.
Beads are available in the Paediatric Medical Day Unit and on Paediatric Inpatients.
We hope that the Bravery Beads Program will validate the many challenges children and adolescents overcome during the course of treatment.
Finally, we hope the necklace will provide a positive keepsake of the child or adolescent’s journey through cancer treatment at Children’s Hospital.
