What diseases do we treat?
In the Solid Tumors department, we treat children with:
- Kidney tumors including Wilms tumor
- Neuroblastoma
- Soft tissue tumors
- Bone tumors (Osteo sarcoma, Ewing sarcoma)
- Germ cell tumors
- Liver tumors
- Melanoma
- Thyroid carcinoma
- Other rare tumors
- Cancer predisposition syndromes
The Department
The Solid Tumors department is located on the second floor and consists of an outpatient clinic, day treatment and a clinic. A total of 15 rooms are available for children. The department has operating rooms, an irradiation department and nuclear treatment rooms. For a number of components of the treatment, we work closely with The Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital (WKZ)/UMCU (surgeries), University Medical Center Utrecht (radiotherapy and nuclear therapy), UMC Groningen (proton therapy), and form integrated teams.
Your child comes for day treatment for the parts of the treatment that can take place in a day. Your child does not have to stay overnight in the hospital. If there are several day treatment days in succession, you have the option of staying in a room at the Ronald McDonald house. The day treatment is a large room with special day treatment chairs and beds so that your child can rest during or after the treatment. There are also single rooms for children who need to be isolated.
Short-term chemotherapy, blood transfusions and other medications are administered during day treatment. Your child also comes here for examinations under sedation such as MRI scans, CT scans and PET scans. Minor operations, such as placing a central line (for medication administration and blood collection) and performing bone marrow punctures, lumbar punctures and bone biopsies are performed in special rooms during day treatment.
