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| Location: |
Stanford Cancer Center
875 Blake Wilbur Drive
1st floor, clinic D
Palo Alto, CA 94034
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| Main: |
(650) 498-6339 |
| Follow-up appointments: |
(650) 736-0845 |
| Fax: |
(650) 498-7789 |
| Hours: |
Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm |
Services Overview
The Radiation-Oncology Clinic at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital provides daily consultative services and radiation therapy for children with cancer. Radiation-Oncology practices a combined modality approach to all children, with weekly solid tumor board and neuro-oncology tumor board.
Clinical services include:
- External beam radiation therapy with both photons and electrons
- Intracavitary radiation therapy with Cesium 137 sources
- Interstitial radiation therapy with Iridium 192 and Iodine 125
Clinical and research programs include:
- Pediatric Hodgkin's disease protocols
- Collaboration in the Children's Oncology Group
- Research on the use of radiation sensitizers, stereotactic radiosurgery and intensity modulated radiation therapy
- Total body irradiation for bone marrow transplantation is also available
Additional Special Services
- Provides consultative diagnostic services for children with cancer
- Full range of physics support, including dosimetry, computerized treatment planning, individualized beam shaping and blocking
Faculty
- Sarah S. Donaldson, MD (Service Chief)
- Iris C. Gibbs, MD
- Don R. Goffinet, MD
- Steven L. Hancock, MD
- Richard T. Hoppe, MD
- Kathleen Horst, MD
- Daniel S. Kapp, MD, PhD
- Christopher R. King, MD
- Susan J. Knox, MD, PhD
- Albert Koong, MD, PhD
- Quynh-Thu Le, MD
- Melanie C. Smitt, MD
- Catherine K. Su, MD
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 497-8000
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