Childhood Cancer Support Services
July 23, 2025
This page was reviewed under our medical and editorial policy by Rusha Bhandari, M.D., assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, City of Hope® Cancer Center Duarte.
When you come to City of Hope, you automatically gain access to a wide array of support services to help you and your family during and after your childhood cancer treatment.
Living with Childhood Cancer
Our support team can help with all of these pediatric cancer concerns, and more:
- Managing side effects of the childhood cancer itself or its treatments
- Restoring normalcy in your family, job or school routine
- Evaluating fertility preservation options
- Handling emotional, social and spiritual issues
- Providing pain management support and care
- Navigating the health care system
- Helping you manage your emotional, social and spiritual health
- Providing behavioral health resources so you can cope with stress
- Sharing strategies to help you stay healthy and active
- Providing specialized tutoring services for kids who aren’t able to go to school due to treatment
- Child life specialists to provide support for patients and their families, including siblings
Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Survivorship Program
The Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Survivorship Program at City of Hope provides specialized follow-up care for patients who have completed treatment for cancer or a similar illness that was diagnosed before 40 years of age. This specialized clinic is one of the only such programs in the United States, providing expert services to childhood and young adult cancer survivors throughout their lives.
Patients who participate in this program are seen every year in a clinic specially designed to meet the needs of childhood and young adult cancer survivors. Patients are evaluated by a team of health care professionals who are experts in survivorship issues, including a physician or nurse practitioner, a dietitian and a psychologist or social worker.
Patients in this program will receive careful monitoring for possible health problems that may sometimes occur after cancer treatment. They will also have the opportunity to talk with the Survivorship Program team about the treatment that they received for cancer, its potential impact on their health and ways to stay as healthy as possible.
Each patient will receive a personalized record of the details of their cancer treatment. They will also be provided guidelines for continued monitoring, including recommendations for preventive care and information about available resources and services. The goal is to help each survivor stay healthy and to prevent any subsequent problems or detect them as early as possible so they can be more easily treated.
This program is carried out in collaboration with each patient’s primary health care and treatment team and is part of the research program here at City of Hope.
For more information, please visit our Childhood, Adolescent And Young Adult Survivorship Program page, call 626-471-9220 or email us at [email protected].