Pediatric Surgical Oncology Patient Procedures

Our expert pediatric surgical oncologists use state-of-the-art technology and the latest surgical techniques to perform complex procedures. We treat a variety of cancers in even the tiniest patients.

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• Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) — CRS is an operation to reduce the number and size of cancerous tumors in the belly. It is also called debulking surgery
• Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) — HIPEC is a specialized type of heated chemotherapy used after CRS. After removing all visible cancer nodules, surgeons perform HIPEC by filling the open belly with heated chemotherapy fluid. The chemo bathes the interior surfaces for one to two hours before being drained.
• Intraoperative molecular imaging (IMI) — An imaging technique that uses a special tracer dye. The dye helps surgeons see and remove as many cancer cells as possible during cytoreductive surgery. IMI can make a difference in surgeons being able to find and remove all the cancer cells and in preventing cancer from coming back. 
• Liver tumor resection — The most common treatment for removing tumors that develop in a child’s liver. This surgery removes a part or section of a diseased liver, leaving as much of the healthy liver as possible.
• Neuroblastoma surgery — Surgery to remove neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a cancerous tumor that develops in the nervous system of babies and young children.
• Partial nephrectomy/nephrosparing surgery — A surgery that removes the part of a kidney that contains a small- to medium-sized tumor. It preserves some or all of the normal part of the kidney. It is also called nephron-sparing surgery. 
• Pulmonary (lung) metastases resection — Pulmonary metastases are cancer growths that began somewhere else in the body and have spread to the lungs. Lung resection removes the lung tumor and all cancer cells from the lung. It also preserves as much healthy tissue as needed for the lung to function.
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) — A procedure to locate and remove the sentinel lymph node. This is the lymph node or group of nodes closest to the original tumor. In an SLNB, the sentinel node is removed and sent to the lab to be tested for cancer.