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Since opening its doors as the nation’s first hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been the setting for medical discoveries, innovations and breakthroughs that have benefited children throughout the world. Children’s Hospital is ranked No. 1 on the U.S.News & World Report 2013-14 Honor Roll of the nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals and The Cancer Center ranked No. 1 in Parents magazine’s 2013 survey of the nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals. These rankings reflect the Hospital’s steadfast commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare providers and pioneering major research initiatives.

The mission of the Cancer Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is to provide the most skilled, compassionate care available. State-of-the-art facilities enable us to focus on the needs of both children and their families. The Cancer Center offers comprehensive, family-centered care with more than 40 pediatric oncologists. Their expertise spans every form of childhood cancer, from the most common to the most rare, enabling us to provide unparalleled breadth and depth. Each year, we treat more than 500 new patients and follow more than 4,000 patients previously treated for childhood cancer.

The Cancer Center offers proton therapy in collaboration with Penn Medicine at The Roberts Proton Therapy Center. This is an innovative form of radiation treatment that allows for more conformed radiation doses delivered to cancerous tumors, particularly tumors of the brain and spinal cord.   Patients treated at The Cancer Center are also offered specialized rehabilitative care at the Children’s Seashore House Center for Rehabilitation where children are offered either inpatient or outpatient therapies depending on their needs.

In addition, the Center for Childhood Cancer Research brings together the diverse talents of investigators from multiple disciplines with the goal of eradicating the problem of cancer in children. The Center pursues this goal through basic, clinical and translational research, aiming to take research advancements from bench to bedside.