Our Program

Our Program

For over 30 years, Children's Hospital has provided family-centred care to children with cancer.

The childhood cancer program is 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) strives to provide high quality, family-centred care to allow children to not only survive their illness but also to sustain normal growth and development and family unity.

What We Do

We work with other health care teams at Children’s Hospital to help with special concerns for children with cancer and their families:

Medical consultation, diagnosis and disease management

• Coordination of care across inpatient, outpatient and home settings
• Expanded nursing support
• Radiation therapy
• General surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Neuropsychological assessment
• Support of family and professional caregivers
• Art Therapy
• Child Life programs
• School reintegration
• Patient Outcome/Continuous Improvement Activities
• Satellite clinics in Kitchener and Windsor
• Aftercare clinic program in collaboration with the Paediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
• Clinical trials participation in provincial and international networks

Our Team