Pediatric Oncology

Staying close to your home and support network can reduce stress and provide comfort to you and your child. Depend on Essentia’s compassionate team to answer your questions, provide guidance for at-home care, and help you talk to your child about their diagnosis and treatment.

Rely on your pediatric oncology team to create a care plan tailored to your child. It may include:

• Chemotherapy – Delivers medications by mouth, injection, or infusion to stop cancer cells from growing
• Immunotherapy – Affects the immune system to help the body fight cancer
• Radiation therapy – Destroys cancer cells with high-energy radiation
• Surgery – Removes cancerous tissue
• Targeted therapy – Uses medications to attack specific types of cancer cells and causes less harm to normal cells than traditional chemotherapy
• Clinical research studies – Uses promising new treatments not yet widely available

Inpatient & Outpatient Care

Talk to your child’s care team about services your child can receive on an inpatient or outpatient basis. Inpatient means your child stays at the hospital. In Duluth, Minnesota, that hospital would be the St. Mary's Children's Hospital. Outpatient means your child stays at home and visits the cancer center or hospital for treatment. In some clinic locations, pediatric cancer patients can receive care from a cancer provider in Duluth via a TeleVideo Exam. i