The Children's Cancer Centre at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, which says it is Victoria's only provider of complex children's cancer care and stem cell transplantation.
The Children's Cancer Centre at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, at 50 Flemington Road in Parkville, describes itself as the only provider of complex children's cancer care and stem cell transplantation in the state of Victoria. According to its page, it opened in October 2006 and treats around three hundred newly diagnosed patients under the age of eighteen each year.
The centre's facilities are described as including inpatient wards with designated bone marrow transplant beds, which is how the site evidences that transplantation is carried out on site rather than referred elsewhere. The page does not set out the detail of the transplant procedure itself - whether cells come from the child, from a sibling, from an unrelated donor or from cord blood, and how they are collected - so anyone wanting that detail would need to ask the centre.
This is haematopoietic, or blood-forming, stem cell transplantation carried out as part of treatment for childhood cancer and serious blood disorders. It is a long-established hospital procedure and is not the same thing as the injected cell treatments sold by private regenerative medicine clinics; families should not read across between the two.
The page gives the hospital's address and switchboard number but names no individual clinicians and says nothing about cost. This is a Victorian public hospital service and children reach it by referral.
The centre describes itself around childhood cancer rather than a published condition list.
The centre states that it provides stem cell transplantation and has designated bone marrow transplant beds, but does not describe the procedure or the source of the cells.
The centre's main page names no individual clinicians.
The Children's Cancer Centre occupies part of the Royal Children's Hospital at 50 Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, and opened in October 2006. Its page describes inpatient wards that include designated bone marrow transplant beds, and says the centre treats about three hundred newly diagnosed patients under eighteen each year. The switchboard number given is +61 3 9345 5522. No accreditation details or languages are listed on the page.
The page says nothing about cost. This is a Victorian public hospital service reached by referral.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.