Resources & Support for Pediatric Cancer Patients
At the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital
The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital provides many resources to help children and their families live with cancer. Our resources include:
- Childhood Cancer Survivors Center: The impact of cancer and its treatment can last long after a child has been cured. This unique Center offers long-term follow-up through adulthood to monitor the impact of the disease and treatment on the patient's growth, organs, fertility, emotional development, and more.
- Child Life Program: Kids want to feel like kids, even when they're sick. Our child life services and personnel use play, art and other approaches to take some of the scare away from the cancer experience and to help kids feel as normal as possible, in spite of their disease.
- Cancer Resource Center: In partnership with the American Cancer Society, we have created an all-inclusive resource center that offers health information and social services to cancer patients and their families.
- Palliative Care: Providing comfort to very ill patients and their families is a priority we take to heart. Our palliative care team includes experts at treating pain and other quality-of-life issues that accompany patients during treatment or at the end of life.
External Patient Resources and Support Groups
- Children's Oncology Services of Illinois
- Gilda's Club Chicago
- Imerman Angels
- Make-a-Wish Foundation
- Phil's Friends
- Cure Search
- American Cancer Society
- Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
- Children's Brain Tumor Foundation
- Live Like John: The John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- The Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Society
- Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation
- Sarcoma Alliance National Marrow Donor Program
- Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network (BMT InfoNet)
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