Research at the Aflac Cancer Center
Every advancement in curing childhood cancer is the result of research. The Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta conducts leading-edge research in conjunction with numerous national and local groups, including:
As a member of New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy (NANT), the Aflac Cancer Center is one of a small group of universities and children’s hospitals with access to Phase I and Phase II neuroblastoma clinical trials.
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Research Focus
Specifically, the Aflac Cancer Center concentrates its research in four main areas:
In turn, the modalities used to help fight these conditions include:
- Innovative therapy, when a standard treatment is not working or has not been developed for a particular disease
- Blood and marrow transplant (BMT), a specialized form of experimental therapy requiring major resources
- Survivorship, doing everything we can for children who are either cured of their disease, or who live with their disease in a chronic fashion, so they can become healthy and productive adults
Goals
As we expand our research program over the next five years, we will:
- Grow our translational research program, with a focus on developmental therapeutics
- Increase enrollment for clinical trials in all scientific areas, with an emphasis on growing the number of experimental therapy protocols
- Recruit at least 10 new researchers—many of whom will be senior investigators with well-established research funding and expertise
- Double our National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding by 2010
Facility Features
Located at three hospitals, Children’s at Egleston, Children’s at Hughes Spalding and Children’s at Scottish Rite, the Aflac Cancer Center features:
- More than 50 inpatient beds in units designed for immunocompromised patients
- 10 specially designed HEPA-filtered rooms for inpatient blood and marrow transplant (BMT) patients
- Private BMT infusion and procedure rooms
- Outpatient clinics with a full range of procedural, infusional and aphersis services
- Dedicated rooms specially equipped to provide distraction for young patients during painful procedures
- Dedicated diagnostic and laboratory services
- Onsite pharmacy