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The Texas Children’s Cancer Center
(TCCC) is the largest children’s cancer center
in Texas and
one of the largest children’s cancer programs in the United States.
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Our goal is to cure all forms of childhood cancer
and blood disease.
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The TCCC is associated with Baylor College of Medicine
and Texas Children’s Hospital.
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Baylor is the top-ranked medical school in Texas
and is ranked fifth in terms of funding received
from the National Institutes of Health, one of the best indicators of the quality
of an institution’s
research.
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Texas Children’s Hospital is the largest
pediatric hospital in the U.S.
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More than 1,200 new patients come to the TCCC for
care each year.
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The clinic staff will handle more than 24,000 outpatient
visits this year.
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The TCCC includes 36 in-patient beds, a 15-bed
Bone Marrow Transplant unit and a nationally
acclaimed, uniquely designed outpatient clinic.
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All patients and families receive comprehensive
psychosocial support services.
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The TCCC has 71 faculty members, all of whom are
leaders in clinical and laboratory research of
childhood cancer and blood diseases.
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The TCCC includes 21 different research laboratories
dedicated to finding a cure. It is nationally
recognized for new drug development and research into innovative therapies for
childhood cancer
and blood diseases.
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Our physician-scientists conduct ongoing research
in a variety of areas, including molecular oncology,
clinical pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, cancer genetics, neuro-oncology,
transplantation
biology, gene therapy, tumor immunology, stem cell biology and hematology.
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The TCCC’s hematology/oncology fellowship/physician-scientist
training program is one of the
most sought-after programs in the nation. |
