The purpose of the Adolescent Cancer Center lies in providing effective standard treatment for cancer that occurs between childhood and adulthood and in prompting patients who have been treated during childhood/adolescence to be examined and treated during their lifetime by medical personnel who primarily participated in the treatment process.
Children are independent beings with physiological characteristics and causes of diseases that are different from those of adults, and especially brain tumors that develop in adolescents and young adults are different from those that occur in adults in their type and standard treatment plans
At the center, patients can get surgery and postoperative management through multidisciplinary treatment where experts, who have a wealth of experience with adolescents’ physiological characteristics and states, participate.
As for postoperative treatment, the direction of patients’ treatment is decided through regular meetings with the Chemotherapy/Radiation Therapy Team, which specializes in children and adolescents.
In particular, the center has accumulated a wealth of experience with disorders of the brain-nervous system in children and adolescents, performing over 1,700 brain tumor surgeries by 2009 and 125 brain-nervous system tumor surgeries in 2010, and concentrates on clinical trials of new anti-cancer drugs against intractable brain tumors and the development of effective therapeutic agents against cancer cells.