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Advocate Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular

Location

Advocate Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular
Therapy Program at Lutheran General Hospital

Center for Advance Care
1700 Luther Lane, #G-123
Park Ridge, IL 60068
Direct phone: 847-723-4400

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 12
  • PBSC: 53
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 122
Performs adult transplants

Overview

Advocate Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital provides adult autologous, matched related-allogeneic, matched un-related allogeneic transplants, haploidentical, as well as CBU transplantation for hematological malignancies such as Leukemia, Myeloma and Lymphoma and non-malignancies as Aplastic Anemia and Sickle Cell Anemia. The program offers Immune Effector Cellular therapies such as DLI, CAR T-cell therapy, Bi-specific T-cell engagers. Collectively, our physicians have more than 60 years of transplant experience, and we offer expert and personalized care with a dedicated team of APPs, nurses, coordinators, pharmacists, nutritionists, and physical and occupational therapists.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1994 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since January 2015.

Attending physicians

Adult - Syed A. Abutalib, Jacob D. Bitran, Syed N. Haider

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

We have discounted housing and nearby hotels. There is area transportation and special services available to help support patient and family members during the transplant process. We have a Cancer Survivorship Center which provides free Social Work and Counseling Services to patients and their care-givers. We have a state-of-the-art Apheresis & Collection center. We have Advanced Practice Providers and BMT Nurse Navigators to assist patients along their journey.

About the center

Overview

Advocate Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital provides adult autologous, matched related-allogeneic, matched un-related allogeneic transplants, haploidentical, as well as CBU transplantation for hematological malignancies such as Leukemia, Myeloma and Lymphoma and non-malignancies as Aplastic Anemia and Sickle Cell Anemia. The program offers Immune Effector Cellular therapies such as DLI, CAR T-cell therapy, Bi-specific T-cell engagers. Collectively, our physicians have more than 60 years of transplant experience, and we offer expert and personalized care with a dedicated team of APPs, nurses, coordinators, pharmacists, nutritionists, and physical and occupational therapists.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1994 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since January 2015.

Attending physicians

Adult - Syed A. Abutalib, Jacob D. Bitran, Syed N. Haider

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

We have discounted housing and nearby hotels. There is area transportation and special services available to help support patient and family members during the transplant process. We have a Cancer Survivorship Center which provides free Social Work and Counseling Services to patients and their care-givers. We have a state-of-the-art Apheresis & Collection center. We have Advanced Practice Providers and BMT Nurse Navigators to assist patients along their journey.

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 97 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 53.4%.

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 60.4% and 77.6%.

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.

Total transplants

Total transplants


187

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 0 46 0 46
Unrelated donor 12 7 0 19
Total allogeneic 12 53 0 65
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
122
-- 122
Total combined
187 0 187

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 0 9 24 13 46
Unrelated 0 2 7 10 19
Autologous 0 8 61 53 122
Total 0 19 92 76 187

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:
Zachary Digiulio
(847) 723-8538
Email: zachary.digiulio@aah.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

Survivorship program


No survivorship program information is available. Contact the center for information about post-transplant care.