Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Bone Marrow Transplant Program

Overview

The Zachary & Elizabeth M. Fisher Bone Marrow Transplant Program provides transplants to adult active duty service members, their dependents, military retirees and congressional designees. The program was established in 1983 and performed their first allogeneic stem cell transplant in 1986. To date they have performed over 1300 transplants.

This center is not a member of the NMDP transplant center network.

Attending physicians

Adult - Alexander Brown, Michael Osswald, John Renshaw, Michael Wiggins

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, Cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult only

Patient survival information for this center

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

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2020, 2021, 2022 and
Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 22 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 77.3%.

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 66.9% and 97.4%.

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.

* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.

The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.

Total adult transplants

38

Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 9	Cord blood 0	Total 9
Unrelated donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 3	Cord blood 0	Total 3
Total allogeneic	Marrow 0	PBSC 12	Cord blood 0	Total 12
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 26	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 26
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 38	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 38

All Diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

	0-18	19-44	45-64	65+	Total
Related	0-18 0	19-44 5	45-64 3	65+ 1	Total 9
Unrelated	0-18 0	19-44 0	45-64 1	65+ 2	Total 3
Autologous	0-18 0	19-44 8	45-64 13	65+ 5	Total 26
Total	0-18 0	19-44 13	45-64 17	65+ 8	Total 38

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 can be found:

U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
List of diseases

Transplant center resources

If you have transplant-related questions, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.

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

More resources

Choosing a transplant center
Preparing for transplant
Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
Support and resources (including non-English materials)
U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov

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