Different: Pediatric neurologist specializes in neurolgical disorders affecting children. Pediatric oncologists are cancer specialist for children. They also specialize in blood disorders for children.
Answered 7/28/2012
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Interesting!: I'm wondering about the reason for your question. The one place they will commonly overlap is in treatment of childhood brain tumors. Both pediatric neurologists and pediatric oncologists become pediatric neuro-oncologists, doctors who specialize in brain tumor treatment. And in my experience, they both do an excellent job of it!
Answered 9/21/2012
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Pediatric neurology : Pediatric neurology is the study of the human nervous system normal and abnormal function in children. Pediatric oncology is the study of abnormal cell proliferation in kids, also known as a cancer doc for kids. Hope this helps.
Answered 8/30/2020
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Peds subspecialists: Pediatric neurology takes care of children with neurologic problems. Pediatric oncology takes care of children with blood and cancer problems. They work together frequently with patients with brain tumors and spinal cord tumors
Answered 7/19/2020
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