What Is MIBG?

What Is MIBG?

What Is MIBG? When your child is diagnosed with cancer, you have to learn a whole new language in just a few days. Terms, phrases, and abbreviations are used by healthcare professionals who deal with cancer every day. And it can leave you dazed. But sometimes it helps...
What is Rotationplasty?

What is Rotationplasty?

What is Rotationplasty? If your child is diagnosed with osteosarcoma or Ewing sarcoma, both different types of bone cancer, near or around the knee, your doctor may recommend a procedure called rotationplasty. Other options include amputation and limb salvage surgery....
What Is CAR-T?

What Is CAR-T?

What Is CAR-T? You may have heard of CAR T-cell therapy, also called CAR T, but what is it? It is an immunotherapy treatment that uses your child’s own immune cells, specifically the T-cells, to fight specific blood cancers. CAR-T can be a frontline treatment or an...
What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant?

What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant?

What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant? You just learned that your child has to have a bone marrow transplant. It sounds ominous. You have a lot of questions. Like, what exactly is bone marrow and what is a bone marrow transplant? Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue...