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Brown Cancer Center (BCC)

Location

Brown Cancer Center (BCC)
529 South Jackson Street
Suite 230
Louisville, KY 40202
Direct phone: (502) 562-4363
Toll-free: (800) 234-BMTX

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 6
  • PBSC: 48
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 95
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

The University of Louisville initiated the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in 1988 with the recruitment of Roger Herzig, MD, as program director. Adult patients are treated at the U of L Health Care Brown Cancer Center/University Hospital; pediatric patients are treated at Norton Children's Hospital.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1990 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 1990.

Attending physicians

Adult - Ju-Hsien Chao, Robert Emmons, Mohamed Hagazi, Hassaan Yasin

Pediatric - Mikey Huang, Esther Knapp, William Tse

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

About the center

Overview

The University of Louisville initiated the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in 1988 with the recruitment of Roger Herzig, MD, as program director. Adult patients are treated at the U of L Health Care Brown Cancer Center/University Hospital; pediatric patients are treated at Norton Children's Hospital.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1990 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 1990.

Attending physicians

Adult - Ju-Hsien Chao, Robert Emmons, Mohamed Hagazi, Hassaan Yasin

Pediatric - Mikey Huang, Esther Knapp, William Tse

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 below 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 69 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 65.2%.

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 67.8% and 87.0%.

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


131

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 0 16 0 16
Unrelated donor 1 28 0 29
Total allogeneic 1 44 0 45
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
86
-- 86
Total combined
131 0 131

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


18

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 2 1 0 3
Unrelated donor 3 3 0 6
Total allogeneic 5 4 0 9
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
9
-- 9
Total combined
18 0 18

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 3 4 8 4 19
Unrelated 6 6 16 7 35
Autologous 10 14 46 25 95
Total 19 24 70 36 149

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:
Allison Nett
(502) 562-3485
Email: allisone@ulh.org

If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.

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

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