The Pediatric Hematology-Oncology department is located at the Mother and Child Health Pavilion in the Ein Kerem Campus. The oncology department's main mission is to provide state-of-the-art care for children and adolescents with cancer and severe non-malignant hematological diseases.
The Pediatric Hematology-Oncology department at Hadassah is the only comprehensive Pediatric Cancer Center in the greater Jerusalem area. It serves a large and heterogeneous population from diverse ethnic and psychosocial backgrounds. Children are referred to the oncology department from the greater Jerusalem area as well as from other parts of Israel and from other International cancer centers all over the world.
The broad range of diseases treated by the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology department includes childhood leukemias as well as pediatric solid tumors. In addition, children with severe, chronic non-malignant hematological disorders (i.e., Thalassemia, aplastic anemia) and severe disorders of the immune system are cared for. The department is also responsible for the field of bone marrow transplants in children.
Hadassah Medical Center's Dyna and Fala Weinstock Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, endowed by generous donors from the United Kingdom,is named after two sisters, both born in Berlin, who lost their families in the Holocaust and lived in England after World War II. The children referred to the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology department are treated by a multidisciplinary staff, which employs the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic tools. The new department has a 17-bed inpatient unit including four bone marrow transplantation beds, and a large clinic/day-hospital facility. Also available on-campus are a radiation therapy facility, a pediatric surgery service with all the relevant subspecialties, a pediatric intensive care unit, and a pediatric infectious disease consultation service.
The diverse multidisciplinary staff of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology department includes seven board-certified Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologists, twenty-five specialty trained oncology nurses, and a wide array of support staff including social workers, psychologists, medical clowns, art and music therapists, teachers, secretaries and volunteers. Each member of the team is at the patient's disposal and will do all he can to heal the child and help him get through the coming period successfully. The department is actively involved in the teaching of medical students, pediatric residents and pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellows.
In recent decades there has been much progress in the treatment of malignant diseases in children. Innovative treatment methods can cure 75% of children suffering from cancer. The process that the child patient and his family goes through involves great suffering and the physical and mental burden is difficult. "The Department of Hematology-Oncology.
The department has grown considerably in the last five years. The number of new patients with cancer reached 90 in 2006. The number of bone marrow transplantations has reached 15 per year. We have an active pediatric coagulation and thrombosis service, as well as a large thalassemia program.
Within the department is a separate area devoted to play and to the school's departments of Hadassah. It was furnished for this purpose and will use a variety of teaching methods. This area was donated by the Levy family and their friends from London, England and Israel, and is named after the late mother of the family, Linda Levy. The group "Line of light" helped to furnish and design the place.
With the rapid growth of the department of Pediatric-Hematology Oncology, the need arose to provide a larger physical facility for the activities of the department. In August 2007, the department moved to a new floor, with expanded inpatient and outpatient facilities.
Oncology Day Care
Every Child that comes to Outpatients/Day Care is first greeted by the nurses, and later, as needed - by a doctor. Every child has a preset day treatment program to optimize the treatment. Oncology outpatients receives about twenty children each day for tests, treatment and follow-up by medical and nursing staff of the Department of Hematology Oncology. Advice is given as well as clear and ongoing follow up for children who suffer from circulatory system disorders. Some of the children are treated in the Outpatients clinic on the ground floor.
Areas of Treatment:
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Anemia (thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, spherocytosis, nutritional deficiencies)
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Blood clotting disorders, hypercoagulable and tendency to bleeding
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Disorders of white blood cells
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Platelet disorders (ITP )
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Diagnosis and treatment of children suffering from cancer (leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors)
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Long-term follow-up clinics for children recovered from malignant diseases
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Congenital and acquired disorders of the immune system.
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Brain tumors in children - bone marrow transplants for genetic diseases, malignant and chronic: Retinoblastoma and more.
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Langerhan's cell histiocytosis in children
Oncology Day Care Unit Staff
Doctors
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Dr Shoshana Revel-Vilk - Hematology, coagulation disorders, lymphoma.
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Dr Mira Charit - Leukemia.
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Dr Polina Stepensky - Immunology, bone marrrow transplantation.
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Dr. Waldman Elisha - Solid tumors, palliative care.
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Dr Iris Fried - Brain tumors
Nursing staff: Nurse: Fatma Hussein
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