ChildrensBloodFoundation.org
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Children's Blood Foundation - Committed to helping children with blood disorders and cancers
Description
Since our founding, CBF funding has helped revolutionize the treatment of children suffering from cancers and childhood blood disorders. With CBF support, the Division sponsors the nation's largest thalassemia clinic, the most extensive hemophilia center in metropolitan New York and the country's largest center for research and care for Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura, or ITP, a platelet disorder. The Division's physicians are among the foremost experts in the world in their respective specialties.
Genetic screening, counseling and pre-natal diagnostic services complement the medical care program, and support groups help the patients and their families adjust to the stress and complications which often accompany living with a chronic illness.
Given the recent advances in treatment, many of our patients are living long, productive lives, and continue to receive care in the pediatric clinic into young adulthood. For example, the long-term survival rate of children with leukemia, previously 1%, has dramatically increased to 70% today and is rising. Children with thalassemia, who rarely survived past age twelve, now live productive lives beyond age thirty with hope for further longevity on the horizon.
Contact
- Children's Blood Foundation
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- New York
- United States 10016
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- +1.2122794336
