Blood disorders and childhood cancers require specialist care designed around a child's diagnosis, development and family. Lavender Lane provides paediatric haemato-oncology consultations, treatment planning, second opinions and selected monitored day-care therapies.
Families often arrive with a blood-test result, a new diagnosis or a treatment plan that is difficult to understand. The first goal is to explain what is known, what still needs confirmation and what should happen next.
Services may include diagnostic review, treatment planning, second opinions, ongoing follow-up and selected monitored therapies when clinically appropriate.
If these patterns sound familiar, a planned specialist consultation can help clarify the next step.
Blood reports, pathology, scans, treatment summaries and medicines are reviewed together.
The clinician explains what the findings mean, which decisions are urgent and which options exist.
Selected chemotherapy, transfusions, infusions and monitored procedures may be delivered in day care when the specialist considers this safe and appropriate.
Our team supports records, scheduling, reports, estimates and follow-up questions.
Arriving with the right records helps the specialist spend more time on the decisions that matter.
Include pathology, imaging, blood reports, prescriptions, discharge summaries and treatment notes.
Include doses, recent transfusions or treatment dates and any reactions.
Families can use the visit to clarify diagnosis, treatment options, expected steps and where care should take place.
Your child's specialists share the same building, the same records and the same day. When more than one is needed, they meet before you do, so you leave with a single written plan, not five opinions to translate.
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Book a consultationReferral may be appropriate for persistent or unexplained anaemia, abnormal blood counts, recurring bruising or bleeding, low platelets, thalassaemia or another diagnosed blood condition.
No. Platelet counts can fall for many reasons. The result should be interpreted alongside symptoms, examination and other investigations.
Yes. Families should share pathology, imaging, treatment summaries, prescriptions and other relevant records before the consultation.
Selected treatments may be suitable for monitored day care. The decision depends on the diagnosis, treatment protocol and child's clinical condition.
Dr Jain can advise on transplant-related evaluation, treatment planning and follow-up. Our team will explain which parts of care are delivered at Lavender Lane and which require a transplant hospital.
Severe or uncontrolled bleeding, altered consciousness, breathing difficulty or significant weakness requires immediate emergency care.
Request a consultation and our team will organise the appropriate starting point.