Oncology

Location 725 Welch Road, 1st floor Palo Alto, CA 94304    Monday-Thursday, all day Fridays by appointment

Phone: (650) 497-8953  Fax: (650) 497-8101

Services Overview

The Oncology Clinic at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital provides diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic management plans for children with cancer, which include but are not limited to:

• Leukemia 
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Hodgkin's disease
• Wilms tumor
• Neuroblastoma
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Ewing sarcoma
• Osteosarcoma
• Germ cell tumors
• Liver tumors
• Brain tumors

The Oncology Clinic also provides extensive psychological and social support. There is a separate clinic for long-term follow-up of childhood cancer patients.
 
We participate in the Children's Oncology Group (COG). All of our patients are eligible for treatment protocols used by this national cooperative group.

Learn about our Cancer and Blood Diseases Center of Excellence.

Faculty

• Gary V. Dahl, MD
• Jorge DiMartino, MD  
• Norman J. Lacayo, MD
• Michael P. Link, MD - Service Chief
• Neyssa M. Marina, MD
• Maureen O'Brien, MD  
• Arun Rangaswami, MD
• Carolyn Russo, MD
• Clare J. Twist, MD
• Michael Wei, MD  

Resources

• Fertility Issues in Childhood Cancer Treatment (PDF)
  Infertility, or the inability to have children, is a side effect of some cancer therapies.  Even though your child's future fertility may not be a concern at this time, there are ways to help protect their chances to have children in the future.  This booklet provides information on infertility risks for different diseases and treatments and options to help save fertility that are available at LPCH and the surrounding area.