Our partners
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| The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) is a specialist paediatric hospital, providing a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents. The RCH Children’s Cancer Centre is the largest partner in the PICS and is the only provider of complex children’s cancer care and stem cell transplantation in the State of Victoria. The RCH Children’s Cancer Centre is recognised as an international leader in the research and treatment of childhood cancer, each year treating around 70% of Victoria’s newly diagnosed cancer patients under the age of 16 and continuing to provide follow up for the many children receiving ongoing treatment and/or active patient follow-up.
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| | | | Monash Children’s at Southern Health (SH) is part of Victoria’s largest health service uniquely providing in one organisation, primary, secondary and tertiary health services. The Monash Children’s Cancer Centre is an integral part of the new Monash Children’s and cares for 30% of Victoria’s childhood cancer patients. The centre incorporates purpose-built treatment rooms, medical consulting rooms, a day treatment facility and an innovative facility capable of providing general anaesthesia for minor oncology procedures.
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| | | | Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) is the only site in Victoria offering radiotherapy to children under the age of 16 years, and is the largest paediatric radiation centre in Australia. It is a public hospital solely dedicated to cancer treatment, research and care. Each year the paediatric unit receives referrals for 50-60 new patients and treats about 70-80 patients. A very small number of children (1-2 per month) are admitted to Peter Mac usually for total body irradiation in preparation for bone marrow transplantation.
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