Melanie Comito, MD

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Pediatrics

Division Chief of Hematology and Oncology

Division Chief of Waters Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders

Division Chief of Pediatrics

SPECIALTIES

Pediatrics

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

LANGUAGES

English

PATIENT TYPE

Children

CLINICAL BACKGROUND AND MY APPROACH TO CARE

Brain and Spinal Cord tumors in Children/Adolescents

CLINICAL TRIALS

HEAD START 4 PROTOCOL: Newly Diagnosed Children (Less than 10 Years Old) With Medulloblastoma and Other Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumors. Clinical and Molecular Risk-Tailored Intensive and Compressed Induction Chemotherapy Followed by Consolidation with Randomization to either Single-Cycle or to Three Sequential Cycles of Marrow-Ablative Chemotherapy with Autologous Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Rescue
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LCH-IV International Collaborative Treatment Protocol for Children and Adolescents with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
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INCB 18424-269 (COG AALL1521), A Phase 2 Study of the JAK1/JAK2 Inhibitor Ruxolitinib With Chemotherapy in Children With De Novo High-Risk CRLF2 Rearranged and/or JAK Pathway–Mutant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
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International Registry for Severe Chronic Neutropenia
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