Nurturing Care: Our Multidisciplinary, Family-Centered Approach

Families and patients dealing with a diagnosis of pediatric cancer or a blood disorder can rely on Driscoll Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center for the most advanced treatments available for infants, children and adolescents.

Team

Along with parents, who are integral to patient care, our team consists of:

  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Nurse case managers
  • Social workers
  • Dietitians
  • Pharmacists
  • Child life specialists
  • Rehabilitation therapists
  • Chaplains
  • Psychologists

Support

The Cancer and Blood Disorders Center offers patient and parent support every step of the journey. The following resources are available:

  • Monthly support group gatherings
  • Personalized assistance from social workers
  • Pre-teen and teen camps

Treatment

Our specialists provide diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic management plans for infants, children and adolescents with malignant diseases and blood disorders, such as:

  • Leukemia
  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • Hodgkin’s disease
  • Wilms’ tumor
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma
  • Brain tumors
  • Acquired and hereditary anemias
  • Neutropenia
  • Thrombocytopenia disorders
  • Abnormalities of platelet function
  • Hereditary and acquired coagulation abnormalities
  • Histiocytic disorders
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Hemoglobinopathies
  • White blood cell disorders
  • Von Willebrand disease
  • Hemophilia
  • Other bleeding and clotting disorders

Services

Our specialists provide diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic management plans for infants, children and adolescents with malignant diseases and blood disorders, such as:

  • Lab
  • Radiology services
  • Medication administration and management
  • Blood-product transfusions
  • Enrollment in clinical trials for the most cutting-edge treatment and support from experts nationwide
  • Certified chemotherapy nurses
  • Social work services for assistance with the difficulties presented by the stress of cancer treatment
  • Child Life services
  • Access to more than 30 pediatric subspecialties at Driscoll Children’s Hospital

Research

Clinical research offers hope for a cure. This research saves lives and changes the odds for kids now and far into the future.

Driscoll Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center is proud to be affiliated with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), whose research has changed childhood cancer. What was an almost incurable disease 50 years ago now has a survival rate of nearly 80 percent.

COG is a network of more than 230 member institutions that treat patients with specific cancer diagnoses the same way according to detailed protocols. Treatment and results data are analyzed, reviewed and shared worldwide. Through our affiliation with COG, Driscoll Children’s Hospital can offer our patients the opportunity to participate in clinical trials, including Phase 2-4 therapeutic, non-therapeutic, biology and long-term follow-up studies.

Seamless Specialist Care

Visit all your child's specialists in one trip to Driscoll Children's Hospital.

Contact any of our specialty clinics to schedule a convenient one-day visit to all your child’s specialists.

Call 361-694-5000 or your 
specialty clinic.

Meet the Cancer and Blood Disorders Team

Catherine Harris Boston MD
Catherine Harris Boston
MD
Cancer and Blood Disorders
Nkechi Mba MD
Nkechi Mba
MD
Cancer and Blood Disorders
Ndina Nhlane MD
Ndina Nhlane
MD
Cancer and Blood Disorders
Farha Sherani MD
Farha Sherani
MD
Cancer and Blood Disorders
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Cancer and Blood Disorders Locations

Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi

3533 S. Alameda St.
Corpus Christi
TX 
78411
(361) 694-5000
24hrs
Cancer and Blood Disorders
1st Floor
(361) 694-5311
(361) 808-2069
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Specialty Center, Brownsville

5500 N. Expressway 77
Brownsville
TX 
78526
(956) 698-8600
(361) 808-2076
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Cancer and Blood Disorders
(956) 688-1208
(956) 683-9160
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Specialty Center, McAllen

1120 E. Ridge Rd.
McAllen
TX 
78503
(956) 688-1200
(361) 808-2075
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Cancer and Blood Disorders
(956) 688-1208
(361) 808-2159
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

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