Consultations and Second Opinions

St. Jude treats children and young adults with:

• Newly diagnosed, untreated, or suspected pediatric cancer
• HIV infections
• Certain hematologic diseases
• Certain genetic diseases
• Certain neurological disorders

To request a consult, your patient must:

• Have a disease we treat, or
• Require a treatment for which we have expertise, such as surgery

Gather important information to provide to St. Jude. We will request standard demographic information to initiate the second opinion or consultation process. This includes:

• Referring provider’s name and contact information
• Patient’s name
• Patient’s date of birth
• Patient’s address and phone number
• Patient diagnosis and treatment history

Providers should contact St. Jude to request a free consultation. You can do this in 1 of 2 ways:

• Contact the Physician/Patient Referral Office. This is the primary way to reach St. Jude for consultation information and requests.
  • Call: 1-888-226-4343 (toll-free)
  • Email: referralinfo@stjude.org
  • Online: referral form
• You can also reach out to individual consultation contacts. These include:
  • Brain Tumor Program
  • Department of Surgery
  • Pediatric and Adolescent Melanoma Referral Clinic
  • St. Jude Collaborative Rare Endocrine Tumor Referral Clinic
  • Histiocytosis Consultation Clinic
  • Bone Marrow Failure and MDS Clinic
  • Melanoma Referral Clinic
  • Rare Endocrine Tumor Referral Clinic

If a more formal medical record evaluation is requested, other information may be required. This could include:

• Clinical summary from diagnosis to present, including all specific treatment flow sheets, dates, and doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy
• All appropriate diagnostic material, including paraffin blocks, H&E slides of the tumor, or bone marrow aspirate and biopsy slides
• All CT, MRI, or nuclear medicine films and reports from the date of diagnosis
• The most recent disease evaluation. This can include either imaging studies or bone marrow aspirates and biopsies.
• Surgery dates and operating room (OR) reports
• Immunocytology or immunopathology reports, including all flow studies or all molecular studies
• Any cryopreserved tumor, stem cells, and marrow reports
• The most recent general evaluation, including as appropriate the ECHO, EKG, cardiac, liver function tests, and metabolic studies
• Any other appropriate information specific to the tumor type