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City of Hope National Medical Center

Location

City of Hope National Medical Center
Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplant
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, CA 91010-0269
Direct phone: (626) 256-4673
Toll-free: (800) 535-7119

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 47
  • PBSC: 740
  • Cord Blood: 4
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 755
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

City of Hope is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Areas of research include DNA typing for donor selection, new agents for prevention and treatment of GVHD, use of peripheral stem cells, reduced intensity or low-dose regimens for older patients or those with co-morbid medical conditions.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1975 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since September 1989.

Attending physicians

Adult - Viabhav Agrawal, Monzr Al Malki, Ibrahim Aldoss, Haris Ali, Joseph Alvarnas, Idoroenyi Amanam, Ahmed Aribi, Shukaib Arslan, Andrew Artz, John Baird, Pamela Becker, Amanda Blackmon, Azra Borogovac, Ball Brian, Lihua Elizabeth Budde, Ji-Lian M. Cai, Peter Curtin, Alexey Danilov, Len Farol, Stephen J Forman, James Godfrey, Scott Goldsmith, Alex Herrera, Myo Htut, Murali Janakiram, Avyakta Kallam, Swetha Kambhampati, Niloufer Khan, Paul Koller, Amrita Krishnan, Larry Kwak, Alexandria Levine, Joshua Mansour, Guido Marcucci, Matthew Mei, Caligiuri Michael, Ryo Nakamura, Nitya Nathwani, Salman Otoukesh, Tycel Phillips, Hoda Pourhassan, Vinod Pullarkat, Steven Rosen, Michael Rosenzweig, Firoozeh Sahebi, Amandeep Salhotra, Karamjeet Sandhu, Geoffrey Shouse, Tanya Siddiqi, Eileen Smith, Ricardo Spielberger, Anthony Stein, Forrest Stewart, Jasmine Zain

Pediatric - Nicole Karras, Anna Pawlowska, Joseph Rosenthal

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

About the center

Overview

City of Hope is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Areas of research include DNA typing for donor selection, new agents for prevention and treatment of GVHD, use of peripheral stem cells, reduced intensity or low-dose regimens for older patients or those with co-morbid medical conditions.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1975 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since September 1989.

Attending physicians

Adult - Viabhav Agrawal, Monzr Al Malki, Ibrahim Aldoss, Haris Ali, Joseph Alvarnas, Idoroenyi Amanam, Ahmed Aribi, Shukaib Arslan, Andrew Artz, John Baird, Pamela Becker, Amanda Blackmon, Azra Borogovac, Ball Brian, Lihua Elizabeth Budde, Ji-Lian M. Cai, Peter Curtin, Alexey Danilov, Len Farol, Stephen J Forman, James Godfrey, Scott Goldsmith, Alex Herrera, Myo Htut, Murali Janakiram, Avyakta Kallam, Swetha Kambhampati, Niloufer Khan, Paul Koller, Amrita Krishnan, Larry Kwak, Alexandria Levine, Joshua Mansour, Guido Marcucci, Matthew Mei, Caligiuri Michael, Ryo Nakamura, Nitya Nathwani, Salman Otoukesh, Tycel Phillips, Hoda Pourhassan, Vinod Pullarkat, Steven Rosen, Michael Rosenzweig, Firoozeh Sahebi, Amandeep Salhotra, Karamjeet Sandhu, Geoffrey Shouse, Tanya Siddiqi, Eileen Smith, Ricardo Spielberger, Anthony Stein, Forrest Stewart, Jasmine Zain

Pediatric - Nicole Karras, Anna Pawlowska, Joseph Rosenthal

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are above the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 1077 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 79.0%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 73.6% and 78.5%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Number of adult transplants

Total adult transplants


1498

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 13 303 0 316
Unrelated donor 13 415 3 431
Total allogeneic 26 718 3 747
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
751
-- 751
Total combined
1495 3 1498

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


48

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 14 17 0 31
Unrelated donor 7 5 1 13
Total allogeneic 21 22 1 44
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
4
-- 4
Total combined
47 1 48

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 33 102 158 50 343
Unrelated 13 93 147 189 442
Autologous 6 123 373 253 755
Total 52 318 678 492 1540

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Armida Pamintuan
(626) 218-1564
Email: apamintuan@coh.org

Financial representative:
June Richetts
626-218-8806
Email: jrichetts@coh.org

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743

Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410.
(Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

Survivorship program

This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.
Please select the program you are interested in.