At diagnosis, you have the option to choose where you would like your child to be treated. Parents can obtain a free referral to an accredited center from either the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) or the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).

The PBTC is a multidisciplinary cooperative research organization devoted to the study of tumor biology and new therapies for childhood brain and spinal cord tumors. Contact information is available at www.pbtc.org/public/inst_contact_info.htm. Member institutions are:

• Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (California)
• Children’s National Medical Center (Washington, DC)
• Children’s Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Ohio)
• Duke University (North Carolina)
• Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (California)
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York)
• National Cancer Institute (Maryland)
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Tennessee)
• Texas Children’s Cancer Center
• University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)

The COG is a consortium of more than 200 hospitals in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe that treat children with cancer. Contact information is:

222 E. Huntington Drive, Suite 100

Monrovia, CA 91016

(626) 447-0064

www.childrensoncologygroup.org