Its main aim is to offer the most effective, advanced and complete treatment from the moment of diagnosis.
The HM Hospital's Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit belongs to HM CIOCC and it is located at the HM Montepríncipe University Hospital due to its close relation with the Pediatrics Department and its various specialties. In this way, it combines the care of a third-level cancer center with the pediatric care of our patients.
The aim of the UHOP is not only to cure children who suffer from cancer, but also to achieve that they become healthy adults ,physically, psychosocially and spiritually, allowing their comprehensive development as a person an also of their companions who were not sick.
Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Unit's Aim
- Updating of the diagnostic and therapeutic means in the context of Translational Medicine to achieve excellent results in our patients' survival.
- Minimize side effects and complications of treatment.
- Multidisciplinary approach from diagnosis and throughout the evolution of the disease that covers all the dimensions of the person (physical, psychological, family, social, spiritual)
- Integrate the disease into the normal life of the children and their family.
The Unit team is made up of:
- 5 Pediatric Oncologists
- Nursing: 1 nursing supervisor, 6 nurses, 1 day hospital nurse.
- 6 nursing assistants
- Music therapist
- Physiotherapist
- Teachers: 2 E.S.O. teachers and Baccalaureate and 2 nursery and primary teachers
- Psychologist
- Spiritual Attention
- Volunteering: 1 volunteer coordinator and 25 volunteers.
- Coordination with Pediatrics and Pediatric Specialties:
- Neurosurgery
- Anesthesia
- Traumatology
- Pediatric ICU
Coordinated with HM CIOCC Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Pneumology
- Infections
- Plastic surgery
- Radiotherapy
- Nuclear medicine
- Pathological anatomy
- Therapeutic targets
- Hematology
Coordinated with the Central Services:
- Pediatric Radiology
- Laboratory
Work method
We take care of the child and his family from the diagnosis to its definitive cure.
The monitoring of patients who reach adulthood is continued by the HM CIOCC medical oncology service, making the transition to said department in a coordinated manner.
In children in whom it is not possible to achieve a cure, we continue their care at home or in the hospital until their death, maintaining continuous care for their family (Palliative Care Unit)
Attention 24 hours a day 365 days a year
The availability of Unit staff is a characteristic of our identity. For this reason, the patients have direct contact with the doctors of the Unit, through a location telephone for 24 hours, 365 days a year (639713145).
We attend to patients of all health insurances, as well as private patients. In the latter case, there is a specific scale for the patients of the Unit.
Specific programs
- Bone tumors: multidisciplinary care for children and teenager diagnosed with bone tumors is aimed at achieving the cure of the disease with the most advanced technical means, as well as minimizing the traumatic sequelae through intensive and own physiotherapy of the Unit and maintenance of the normal life of the child as far as possible. Team led by Dr. Eduardo Ortiz
- Brain tumors: multidisciplinary care for children and teenagers diagnosed with brain tumors includes third-level technical means (neuroradiology and advanced neurosurgery) and multidisciplinary care aimed at minimizing the sequelae of the disease and its treatment. The neuropsychological rehabilitation program includes different professionals from the Unit and covers all the facets in which the child and his family must be cared for (Comprehensive Rehabilitation Unit for Brain Tumors). Team led by Dr. Jorge Diamantopoulus.
- Neuroblastoma: Treatment with high doses of I131 MIBG in Neuroblastomna
- Pediatric Radiotherapy Treatment: Directed by Dra. Mamen Rubio
- Personalized Medicine: Therapeutic Targets.
- Research projects and clinical trials led by Dr. Ángel Ayuso.
Unit's Organization
From a structural point of view, the Unit is divided into 2 independent sections:
Pediatric Hematology (0-18 years)
Children and teenagers (0-18 years) are treated in the different hematological pathologies of childhood according to the most advanced diagnostic and treatment methods.
The Pediatric Hematology consultation is located in three centers:
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HM Monteprincipe (Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit), from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day of the week. Your appointment is made through the HM Hospitals call center: 902 089 800.
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HM Sanchinarro: Wednesday from 4pm to 6pm, Friday from 10am to 12pm. Located in query 7 of HM CIOCC.
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HM Puerta del Sur (Móstoles): Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Provisionally and until January 2018, located in the Rehabilitation consultation.
For hematological emergencies, the doctor's direct telephone number is: 639 71 31 45
Pediatric Oncology (0-18 years)
From a functional point of view, it is divided into 3 areas: consultation, day hospital and admission, although these areas are used dynamically and simultaneously on a day-to-day basis. The main aim is to minimize hospital admissions by administering treatment whenever possible, on an outpatient basis from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., including weekends. Coordination of appointments for diagnostic tests and consultations with other specialists is also an aim in family care.
Query New patients, follow up consultations, hematology consultations as well as second opinion consultations are served from Monday to Friday.
Appointments can be requested through the call center 902 107 469.
Day hospital Intended for outpatient chemotherapy treatments, transfusion therapy, support treatment and patient observation for a few hours.
Open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week.
* Hospitalization Patients who require hospital admission for treatment and / or management of acute and postoperative situations. During admissions there is 24-hour pediatric medical supervision.
All rooms are individual. There are 2 rooms with insulation and laminar flow for immunosuppressed patients and in bone marrow transplantation.
There are two oncology ICU rooms in which the patient is monitored 24 hours a day and their care is carried out in coordination with the Pediatric ICU.
There are two rooms in a day hospital for stays of several hours and discharge at the end of the day treatment. Nursing and supporting professionals work exclusively in the Unit after specific and continuous technical training. This fact improves care for the sick and their families. In addition to its assistance work, the nursing team carries out research work, participates in teaching and in continuing education courses and congresses of the specialty.
Oncology Emergencies
It attends to emergencies that may occur outside the hours of 9 to 18 hours of activity of the Unit, on the phone: 639713145.
Structure of the medical team
Head of service: Dra. Blanca López Ibor Aliño
Clinical Chief: Dra. Marta Villa Alcázar
Associate Physician
Dra. Isabel Martinez Romera
Fellow in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Pilar Areal Hidalgo
Felisa Vázquez Gómez
Nursing supervisor
Pilar Montes
Psychosocial Care Team Director
Bengoechea Trail
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Activity Center
HM Montepríncipe
25 Montepríncipe Avenue
28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid
http://oncopediatrialopezibor.es
For the
Pediatric Hematology consultation, your appointment is made through the call center 902 089 800.
For the
Pediatric Oncology consultation, your appointment is made through the call center 902 107 469.
Collaborate with the Pediatric Oncology Unit of HM Hospitals
The possibility of collaborating with the Pediatric Oncology Unit of HM Hospitals is done through the HM Research Foundation.
In this Foundation, its main objective is to support Research, there is a specific area of social commitment to help children with cancer and their families.