How do you become a pediatric oncologist?
Treating children with cancer falls to a very special group of people, trained not just to try and rid the body of disease, but also to treat these very sick children as children and not as miniature adults. Doctors in the field of pediatric oncology must overcome the difficulty of treating a disease which reacts differently in children than adults and also of dealing with young children who may not understand what is happening to them. Training to become a specialist Step 1 The field of pediatric oncology is tied to pediatric hematology. Doctors in this field study pediatric hematology-oncology. They treat children and adolescents with blood disorders and all forms of cancer. Many doctors training in this field may eventually choose to study and specialize in one area. Some of them will become stem cell transplantation experts. Step 2 Physicians spend six years training in oncology and hematology after four years of medical school. It begins with a three-year residency in pediatrics c
