Yawkey (DFCI) Med Room 6

Caring for children with cancer doesn't end after treatment. Our patients have lives outside of the hospital, and we provide the services they need to transition back to life and to thrive in school, work and play. Survivors of childhood cancer and their families often have unique needs and concerns, and our survivorship programs were established to address them. The medical experts at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center can provide insight about any risk of learning disabilities, infertility, heart problems, secondary tumors, and genetic issues. In addition, counselors can help with unresolved feelings and emotions about the cancer and its treatment.

Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot normally because of a missing or dysfunctional clotting protein. Clotting proteins, also called clotting factors, work with other blood components such as platelets, von Willebrand factor, and other proteins to form a blood clot. When any of these components is absent or low, increased bleeding can result. If clotting factor VIII (8) or factor IX (9) are affected, this bleeding disorder is called hemophilia.