The Children's Cancer Hospital offers comprehensive, personalized care for benign (non-cancerous) and malignant (cancerous) brain tumors in children. Our expert, highly specialized physicians and a dedicated support staff follow your child every step of the way, collaborating and communicating closely.
The one gift cancer gave me is perspective. Now, each day is a new day and is filled with possibilities.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
We provide the most advanced diagnostic and treatment approaches, many of which are available at only a few hospitals in the nation. Our surgeons are top in their fields, and their expertise helps target the tumor while saving as much of the surrounding tissue as possible.
In collaboration with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, our pediatric brain tumor program brings together expertise from two renowned hospitals. The program ensures that patients receive timely and accurate diagnosis and individualized treatment for all types of childhood brain tumors.
Children's Cancer Hospital offers clinical trials for innovative new treatments for brain tumors. And, behind the scenes we are working on groundbreaking basic science research to change the future of pediatric cancer.
Treating the whole child
Children's Cancer Hospital is designed just for children, with a full range of services and amenities that help make the child and family's experience as comfortable as possible. We go beyond medical care to deliver a comprehensive experience that treats the whole child. And at Children's Cancer Hospital, you're surrounded by the strength of one of the nation's top cancer centers.
Facts
Understanding a disease is the first step toward finding the right care. Get the facts about childhood brain tumors, including the different types, how they start and who's at risk.
Did You Know?
Help is available as soon as you arrive at MD Anderson. Social workers, patient advocates and chaplains are here to make sure your experience is the best it can be.
Symptoms
Most cancers have the same symptoms as other, less serious conditions. Still, it’s important to know the signs.
Diagnosis
Blood tests, imaging exams and even surgical procedures are used to check for cancer. Learn what methods doctors use to diagnose childhood brain tumors, as well as how they determine a tumor's stage.
Treatment
Common cancer treatments include chemotherapy, radiation treatment and surgery. Doctors select a treatment plan based on your diagnosis and disease stage.
San Antonio resident Tony Castro was only seven years old when he started showing the first signs of a childhood brain tumor.
He began feeling nauseated in Nov. 2013, and even vomited occasionally. But because it was cold and flu season, the thought of cancer never entered his mother’s mind.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t recognize it, and I took it really hard,” Lilliana Castro says. “I’m an ICU nurse, and I just beat myself...
