Pediatric Care Team

Child life specialists can help children and teens living with serious illnesses cope with challenges. Read on to learn more about child life specialists.

Healthy boundaries with members of the care team are important when your child is facing a serious illness. These tips can help you understand healthy boundaries with care team members.

Nurses are important members of a patient's care team and perform a variety of patient care tasks. Learn about types of nurses and their roles and functions.

A team of pediatric cancer experts and support staff helps patients and families from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. Learn team member roles.

Social workers help families manage the emotional and practical matters of facing a serious pediatric illness such as cancer. Learn how social workers can help.

You can use the facility locator tool to find hospitals that treat pediatric cancer and are members of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).

Because childhood cancer is so rare, health care providers may never care for a childhood cancer survivor. Those that do may not be aware of the possible late effects of childhood cancer treatment.

Medical play can help your child express feelings and concerns about their medical care.

Listen to hopeful thoughts, medical explanations, and practical advice from families and care teams facing childhood and adolescent cancer, blood disorders, and other serious pediatric illnesses.

The Together glossary gives an alphabetical list of terms and definitions to help families understand words encountered in the pediatric cancer journey.

Explaining cancer to children can be challenging. This list of words provides child-friendly definitions to commonly used words about cancer diagnosis and treatment.