Bass Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases
Important Change to Hospital Visitation Policy |
| Effective October 19, 2009, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital will no longer allow non-patient visitors or family members under the age of 16 years to visit in the hospital. This policy will be in effect during the height of the flu season, usually lasting until spring, and will be re-evaluated at that time. Learn more about the visitation policy change / Lea más acerca del cambio en las normas de visitas. |
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Mailing Address 725 Welch Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 |
Phone: (650) 497-8953 New Patient Referrals: (800) 995-5724 |
The Center focuses on caring for children with cancer and blood diseases such as:
- Anemia: A common blood disorder that occurs when there are fewer red blood cells than normal, or there is a low concentration of hemoglobin in the blood.
- Hemophilia: An inherited bleeding, or coagulation, disorder in which the child lacks the ability to stop bleeding because of the low levels, or complete absence, of specific proteins in their blood.
- Leukemia: A cancer affecting the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow.
- Hodgkin's disease: A type of lymphoma, a cancer in the lymphatic system; Hodgkin's disease causes the cells in the lymphatic system to abnormally reproduce, eventually making the body less able to fight infection. Steady enlargement of lymph glands, spleen, and other lymphatic tissue occurs. Also known as Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
- Pediatric bone marrow transplant: The Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital offers matched allogeneic related donor, matched unrelated donor, autologous, umbilical cord blood and peripheral blood stem cell transplants.
- Stem cell transplantation in children: A term that acknowledges the fact that the stem cells necessary to regenerate blood and immune function can now be obtained from peripheral or umbilical cord blood, as well as from bone marrow.