World-Class Expertise for Kids With Liver Tumors
When families enter our Liver Tumor Program, they know they are getting research-backed results with a family-centered approach. Our team takes a coordinated approach to identifying and treating your child’s liver tumor through the exclusive treatment with Y90, or transarterial radioembolization with yttrium-90 (TARE-Y90).
As one of the only children’s hospitals in the nation offering Y90, we have developed the experience and research that help put your child’s recovery first. Y90 is a common procedure in adults, but until recently was rarely used in children’s cancer treatment.
TARE-Y90 is revolutionary because it targets the tumor without damaging the healthy parts of the liver. It offers children the opportunity to have their tumor removed through partial resection (removal of tissue) of their liver or a liver transplant procedure.
Our team of internationally recognized experts in oncology, cancer surgery, liver transplant and interventional radiology focuses on providing your family with the latest research and approaches. The multidisciplinary approach we use ensures that every expert has a chance to weigh in, and that the correct plan is designed. With the Nemours Y90 program, we're giving families help and hope.
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What is Radioembolization (TARE-Y90) for Liver Tumors? Learn more from the Nemours experts at KidsHealth.org.
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If your child has liver cancer, you want the best possible treatment. Nemours is one of only a few children’s hospitals to perform TARE-Y90. We offer potentially life-saving liver tumor treatment that you can’t find everywhere.
- We’re highly skilled in TARE-Y90. Nemours has one of the nation’s few pediatric interventional radiologists trained in TARE-Y90. You can trust your child will get the highest level of expertise available.
- We have one of the largest, most qualified programs. Ours is one of the largest pediatric interventional radiology groups in the country and some of our radiologists are among a few hundred who are dual fellowship trained. This means they’re trained in both pediatric diagnostic radiology and interventional radiology.
- We’re part of a renowned pediatric cancer center. The Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is a multisite center that brings together advanced clinical care and research. As one of the largest in the nation, our team works together across locations to treat the rarest and most complex liver tumors in children.
- We’re internationally recognized leaders. Our oncology team is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best children’s hospitals in the nation for cancer. Our surgery team has been named as a level 1 Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program. We’ve achieved outstanding outcomes in surgery and safety to receive these honors.
- 2017 Year we began offering TARE-Y90 for kids
- 2-3 Hours that treatment usually takes
- 6 Number of hours after treatment when a child can usually go home
- We’re highly skilled in TARE-Y90. Nemours has one of the nation’s few pediatric interventional radiologists trained in TARE-Y90. You can trust your child will get the highest level of expertise available.
- We have one of the largest, most qualified programs. Ours is one of the largest pediatric interventional radiology groups in the country and some of our radiologists are among a few hundred who are dual fellowship trained. This means they’re trained in both pediatric diagnostic radiology and interventional radiology.
- We’re part of a renowned pediatric cancer center. The Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is a multisite center that brings together advanced clinical care and research. As one of the largest in the nation, our team works together across locations to treat the rarest and most complex liver tumors in children.
- We’re internationally recognized leaders. Our oncology team is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best children’s hospitals in the nation for cancer. Our surgery team has been named as a level 1 Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program. We’ve achieved outstanding outcomes in surgery and safety to receive these honors.
- 2017 Year we began offering TARE-Y90 for kids
- 1-3 Hours that treatment usually takes
- 6 Number of hours after treatment when a child can usually go home
- We’re highly skilled in TARE-Y90. Nemours has one of the nation’s few pediatric interventional radiologists trained in TARE-Y90. You can trust your child will get the highest level of expertise available.
- We have one of the largest, most qualified programs. Ours is one of the largest pediatric interventional radiology groups in the country and some of our radiologists are among a few hundred who are dual fellowship trained. This means they’re trained in both pediatric diagnostic radiology and interventional radiology.
- We’re part of a renowned pediatric cancer center. The Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is a multisite center that brings together advanced clinical care and research. As one of the largest in the nation, our team works together across locations to treat the rarest and most complex liver tumors in children.
- We’re internationally recognized leaders. Our oncology team is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best children’s hospitals in the nation for cancer. Our surgery team has been named as a level 1 Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program. We’ve achieved outstanding outcomes in surgery and safety to receive these honors.
- 2017 Year we began offering TARE-Y90 for kids
- 1-3 Hours that treatment usually takes
- 6 Number of hours after treatment when a child can usually go home
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