Dharamshila Cancer Hospital And Research Centre (DCHRC) offers a comprehensive service for treatment of childhood cancers. Though childhood cancers are rare, with a 1 in 600 chance of a child developing cancer before the age of 15, it is an important cause of child mortality. In the developed world more children die due to childhood cancer than due to any other disease.

The cure rates for children with cancer are very good and are constantly increasing with two-thirds of children achieving long-term cure. This figure is even higher for certain conditions like Wilms' tumor and Hodgkin's disease.

The quality of treatment is the biggest prognostic factor in the overall outcome of these children. Their disease spectrum is very different from that of adults and so are their needs. Treatment of childhood cancers needs to be highly individualized. It is therefore important that pediatricians trained in the management of childhood cancer manage these patients.

The Pediatric Oncology unit at (DCHRC) has been set up keeping these in mind. The unit is fully geared up for the comprehensive management of children with blood cancer, solid tumors, brain tumors and nonmalignant hematological conditions