Center for Cancer, Blood Disorders and Cellular Therapies
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals provide comprehensive pediatric oncology care, combining multidisciplinary expertise, groundbreaking research and access to early-phase clinical trials to deliver personalized treatment for children with complex cancers.
Urgent referrals are typically addressed the same day, with non-urgent referrals seen within the same week. Telehealth services are available for patients nationwide, and disease-specific experts are available 24/7 for consultations with referring providers.
Specialtized Expertise for Pediatric Cancers and Blood Disorders
Brain Tumor Program
Specialists: Banerjee • Jaeger-Krause • Mueller • Na • Qiu • Reddy
Provides comprehensive care for children with complex brain tumors through integrated neuro-oncology and neurosurgery expertise, advanced molecular profiling and access to PNOC clinical trials.
Leukemia Program
Specialists: Braun • Castellanos • Decker • Huang • Levinson • Michlitsch • Peretz • Rabin • Rahnama • Stieglitz • Valle • Wu
Offers comprehensive care for children with newly diagnosed and relapsed leukemias, including access to CAR T-cell therapies, stem cell transplantation collaboration and genomic-guided treatment planning.
Liver & Germ Cell Tumor Program
Specialists: Lerman • Rangaswami
Combines surgical and oncology expertise with multidisciplinary tumor review and individualized treatment planning.
Lymphoma Program
Specialists: Jain • Robbins • Valle • Wu
Delivers multidisciplinary care for children with Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with access to novel immunotherapies and expertise in relapsed and complex disease.
Neuroblastoma Program
Specialists: Lerman • Matthay • Qiu • Vo
Specializing in high-risk and relapsed disease, the program offers advanced neuroblastoma care, including MIBG therapy, molecularly targeted treatments and clinical trial access.
Retinoblastoma Program
Specialist: Banerjee
Provides coordinated ocular oncology care with specialized surveillance, treatment planning and family-centered genetic counseling support.
Sarcoma Program
Specialists: Decker • Michlitsch • Sweet-Cordero • Valle • Vo • Young
Brings together oncology, surgery and expertise in supportiive care to treat pediatric bone and soft tissue sarcomas, with access to precision medicine trials and multidisciplinary tumor review.
Survivorship & Supportive Care
Specialists: Seashore • Wu
Supports childhood cancer survivors through long-term follow-up, symptom management, psychosocial services and coordinated care for patients and their families.
Wilms Tumor Program
Specialist: Wu
Provides multidisciplinary care for children with Wilms tumor, including advanced diagnostics, personalized treatment planning and access to specialized surgical and oncology expertise.
