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Pediatric Care Team

Learn about the pediatric care team

A team of pediatric health experts will help your child and family from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. These team members may include doctors, nurses, child life specialists, social workers, psychologists, and rehabilitation therapists. Learn the roles each care team member will play.

Featured resources

  • Find a Treatment Center Near You

    You can use the facility locator tool to find hospitals that treat pediatric cancer and are members of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).

  • Katie's Story: Building Relationships with Health Care Providers

    Because childhood cancer is so rare, health care providers may never care for a childhood cancer survivor. Those that do may not be aware of the possible late effects of childhood cancer treatment.

  • The Benefits of Medical Play

    Medical play can help your child express feelings and concerns about their medical care.

  • Video Library

    Listen to hopeful thoughts, medical explanations, and practical advice from families and care teams facing childhood and adolescent cancer, blood disorders, and other serious pediatric illnesses.

  • Glossary

    The Together glossary gives an alphabetical list of terms and definitions to help families understand words encountered in the pediatric cancer journey.

  • Child-Friendly Definitions

    Explaining cancer to children can be challenging. This list of words provides child-friendly definitions to commonly used words about cancer diagnosis and treatment.