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Sometimes, cancer cannot be cured. When that is the case, patients and families are faced with complex emotions and a variety of end of life issues.

Distraction does not cure cancer, but it can help push a person’s mind away from unpleasant thoughts, procedures, and pain.

FAP is a syndrome characterized by a large number of noncancer (benign) polyps in the colon and rectum. Without treatment, a person with FAP has a nearly 100% risk of colorectal cancer.

A chondroblastoma is a rare type of noncancerous bone tumor that begins in cartilage. This is the specialized, gristly connective tissue from which most bones develop. It plays an important role in the growth process. There are many different types of cartilage in the body. Chondroblastoma most often affects the ends of the long bones, near the growth plate, in the arms at the shoulder, and in the legs at the hip and knee. It is also called Codman’s tumor.

Detailed information on diagnostic procedures for bone disorders, including bone densitometry, radionuclide bone scan, and biopsy.

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a blood disorder. With this disease, you have a lower amount of platelets than normal in your blood. Read on to learn more.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that causes the body to make abnormal hemoglobin. This is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to all parts of your body. Read on to learn more.

Thrombocythemia is a disease in which your bone marrow makes too many platelets. This can cause too much clotting or not enough clotting. Read on to learn more.

A blood transfusion is a procedure in which you receive blood or parts of blood through an I.V. (intravenous) line.