For Patients and Families
Our Treatment Areas
Through Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Care, your child may receive treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
If your child requires round-the-clock care or must undergo an inpatient procedure, their appointment will be at Children's. All of your child's outpatient oncology visits and some outpatient procedures will take place at Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund Clinic.
Dana-Farber and Children's are located in adjacent buildings, and they are connected by an indoor passage. You will see your child's oncologists at both institutions. Because cancer treatment may affect many organs and body systems, your child may also visit other pediatric specialists at Children's.
If your child needs radiotherapy, they will visit Brigham and Women's, which is located within one block of Dana-Farber and Children's.
The Oncology and Neuro Oncology Inpatient Units: 6 North and 9 North
- Located on the sixth and ninth floors of the Main Building at Children's
- General oncology patients are admitted to 6 North, and brain tumor patients are admitted to 9 North when requiring an overnight stay.
The Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation Unit: 6 West
- Located on the sixth floor of the Main Building at Children's
- Patients receiving stem cell transplantations are admitted to this special unit which utilizes an air filtration system and infection control to provide a safe environment before, during and after transplantation.
The Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Located on the third floor of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
- The 18-bed outpatient clinic includes several individual treatment and procedure rooms, multiple consultation rooms to provide your family a private meeting space, and its own independent pharmacy.
The Radiology Suite at Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Located at Brigham and Women's Hospital, this state-of-the-art facility is equipped with cutting edge technology for the delivery of more localized, "conformal," radiation therapy.
The Mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Unit
- Located in one of eight new surgical suites in Main South at Children's
- This operating room is built around a magnetic resonance imaging machine, so that neurosurgeons can obtain real time images of complex tumors in the midst of surgery. The first equipment of its kind in the United States, this operating room lets surgeons remove brain tumors with utmost accuracy.
The Operating Rooms
- Located on the third floor of the main building at Children's
- Children with cancer often visit the operating room for diagnostic and treatment-related procedures.
The Intensive Care Unit
- Located on the seventh floor of Main South at Children's
- Children often spend some time in the ICU after surgery, where they can be closely watched by an expert team of clinicians. Children in the ICU can have visitors, and one parent can stay overnight with their child.
