The Bayless Cancer Institute at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida, supports cancer survivors through their journey, from diagnosis throughout treatment to life-after-cancer care. Our After Cancer Treatment (ACT) clinic is a long-term follow-up facility at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital for childhood cancer survivors. It helps provide support for late-occurring medical conditions that continue or develop because of cancer and/or its treatment. 

As survival rates from childhood cancer continue to improve, more children and adolescents enter survivorship every year. Cancer survivors are at risk for a multitude of chronic or late-occurring health problems caused by their cancer or its treatment, often referred to as “late effects.” Late effects can affect a survivor’s physical, cognitive and psychosocial health and, over time, they remain at risk for developing many of these. 

The ACT clinic’s goal is to give every childhood cancer survivor an individualized plan that’s focused on optimizing healthy living, managing late effects, addressing mental health needs and monitoring for secondary cancers. 

Our multidisciplinary team includes: 

• ACT-dedicated nurse
• Behavioral health professionals
• Board-certified pediatric hematologists/oncologists
• Clinical research team
• Nutritionists