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Department of Paediatric Haemato-Oncology

We, the team of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology specialists, at Rela Hospital, offer holistic care for children, adolescents, and young adults with all types of cancers, blood disorders, and congenital immune problems.

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DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

We, the team of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology specialists, at Rela Hospital, offer holistic care for children, adolescents, and young adults with all types of cancers, blood disorders, and congenital immune problems. Our mission is to treat and cure these children by understanding their special needs and providing them with comprehensive, compassionate care from diagnosis through recovery. Our specialists are trained to connect with children and adolescents to set the stage for effective examinations, diagnosis and treatments.

Paediatric Haemato-Oncology Services

  • Evaluation and management of all blood-related disorders in children.
  • Evaluation, staging, and Multidisciplinary Tumour Board discussion for all newly diagnosed children with cancers.
  • Chemotherapy for all childhood cancers as per international standard protocols.
  • Diagnosis and management of all immune deficiency diseases in children.

All types of Bone Marrow Transplantation for benign and malignant diseases in children including:

  • Allogenic
  • Matched Related Donor
  • Matched Unrelated Donor
  • Haploidentical (half-matched) including T cell-depleted method
  • Cord blood transplantation
  • Autologous BMT
  • Liver transplant for advanced Hepatoblastoma headed by Prof Mohamed Rela.
  • Surgery and Radiotherapy expert care for childhood cancers.

Supportive Care Services

  • Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) – managed 24×7 by Paediatric Intensive Care Consultants.
  • Comprehensive lab services – including Haematology, Histopathology, Immunology and advanced molecular diagnostics like flow cytometry, HLA typing, PCR analysis.
  • Round-the-clock Blood Bank with facilities for apheresis
  • Advanced diagnostic radiology – including PET-CT scan
  • Ultramodern Radiotherapy services

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TREATMENTS AND PROCEDURES

We offer comprehensive care in the treatment of the following disorders-

Haematology

  • Anaemia – nutritional like iron deficiency, vitamin B12 and folate deficiency
  • Haemolytic anaemias like thalassemia, sickle cell anaemia
  • Thrombocytopenia – ITP, platelet function disorders
  • Aplastic anaemia – inherited, acquired
  • Bleeding disorders including von Willebrand disease
  • Clotting disorders like haemophilia
  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis
  • Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
  • Other blood disorders

Oncology

  • Leukemias like Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Acute myeloid leukaemia etc
  • Lymphomas- Hodgkin’s and Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • Bone tumours – Ewing’s sarcoma, Osteosarcoma
  • Hepatoblastoma
  • Nephroblastoma (Wilm’s tumour)
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma and other soft tissue sarcomas
  • Germ cell tumours
  • Brain tumours

Immunology

Evaluation of children with recurrent infections, immunological testing and management of immune deficiencies including Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID), agammaglobulinemia etc.

Bone marrow (stem cell) transplantation

Our highly trained specialists perform a variety of blood and marrow transplant procedures. All BMT patients are treated in a safe and private environment in state of the art HEPA filtered rooms. We offer all types of transplantation:

  • Allogenic BMT using matched related donors
  • Allogenic BMT using matched unrelated donors
  • Allogenic BMT using haploidentical (half-matched) donors
  • Allogenic unrelated cord blood transplantation
  • Autologous stem cell transplantation

Some of the conditions/diseases for which bone marrow transplantation is offered:

Haemoglobinopathies:

  • Thalassemia Major
  • Sickle cell anaemia

Primary Immune deficiencies like SCID, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

Acute Leukemias:

  • Relapsed ALL
  • High Risk AML

Lymphomas:

  • Relapsed Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • Relapsed Non Hodgkin Lymphoma

Severe Acquired Aplastic anaemia

Inherited marrow failure syndromes like

  • Fanconi Anaemia
  • Pure red cell aplasia
  • Severe Congenital Neutropenia

Inherited Metabolic disorders

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