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Clinical Trials for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders

The physicians and nurses at the Tomorrows Children’s Institute are leading participants in clinical trials and research efforts of the Children's Oncology Group (COG). Treatment protocols coordinated by the COG are available for most children with cancer treated at the Tomorrows Children’s Institute. Participation in these protocols enables our patients to receive cutting-edge oncology treatment.

The following is a list of COG protocols currently available at the Tomorrows Children’s Institute. For more information about a particular protocol, please contact us at (201) 996-5437 or by email at info@tcikids.com.

Clinical trials are also available for stem cell transplants as well as hematology (blood disorders).

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David Joseph Jurist Research Center for Tomorrows Children

David Joseph Jurist Research Center for Tomorrows Children, a premier research facility for groundbreaking scientific discovery, elevates the medical center’s stature from a high-quality healthcare institution to a world-class facility. Rising five stories high, the center encompasses 55,000 square feet of space, including secure underground parking.

Highlights include David and Alice Jurist Institute for Research’s Clinical Research Center, laboratories for basic clinical research, DNA sequencing, and other modern high-tech equipment and instrumentation, specialized facilities for radioisotope use and infectious containment; a library, administrative offices and a lecture hall equipped with audio-visual technology and a telecommunications system so that researchers can participate in multi-site continuing education programs with their peers from around the world.

The center was named for Mr. Jurist because of his commitment to children with cancer. His daughter, Eileen Jurist, one of seven children, was treated for Hodgkin’s disease. Mr. Jurist, co-president of the Tomorrows Children’s Fund, and his wife, Alice, are both active participants in all of the fund’s initiatives.

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David and Alice Jurist Institute for Research

In 1997, Hackensack University Medical Center heightened its decades-long commitment to clinical-based research and established the David and Alice Jurist Institute for Research, through which physicians can increase their involvement in high-caliber research. That same year the David and Alice Jurist Institute for Research formed the Clinical Research Center, a resource for investigators from around the world who want to conduct research here. To facilitate the ever increasing number of research protocols that were initiated, the medical center built a comprehensive research center, called the David Joseph Jurist Research Center for Tomorrows Children. 

Housed in the center, the David and Alice Jurist Institute for Research conducts research in every medical field, with emphasis on pediatric and adult cancer, cardiology, allergy and immunology, infectious diseases, pediatric illnesses, orthopedics, urology, surgery, pulmonary medicine, neurology, and neurosurgery.

Virtually all physicians and scientists at the medical center are engaged in clinical research, united toward a common goal – to prevent illness and cure disease. This pursuit of research gives our medical staff extraordinary ability to explore new and better approaches to medicine – to uncover and deliver novel treatment breakthroughs. Patients at the medical center, therefore, have direct access to the latest, most promising treatments and comprehensive medical and support services.
 

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For more information, please contact us at

tel: (201) 996-5437 / fax: (201) 487-7340 / email: info@tcikids.com

The Tomorrows Children's Institute
DON IMUS - WFAN Pediatric Center for Tomorrows Children
The Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital
Hackensack University Medical Center
30 Prospect Avenue
Hackensack, NJ  07601