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Hackensack University Medical Center

Location

Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack Meridian Health

BMT and Cellular Therapy Program
30 Prospect Avenue
Hackensack, NJ 7601
Direct phone: (551) 996-5600

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 77
  • PBSC: 189
  • Cord Blood: 5
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 546
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

The adult division at the John Theurer Cancer Center and the pediatric program at the Joseph M Sanzari Children's Hospital offers their patients comprehensive, compassionate, and cutting edge stem cell therapy. The team at Hackensack University Medical Center has extensive experience in autologous, allogeneic, matched, mismatched, haploidentical and cord blood transplant. Both programs offer immune effector cell therapy.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1993 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since May 1996.

Attending physicians

Adult - Christina Cho, Michele Donato, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Sukhdeep Kaur, Hyung Suh, David Vesole

Pediatric - Burton Appel, Christine Camacho Bydume, Alfred Gillio, Johannes Zakrzwwski

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Hackensack Meridian Health, home to the Joseph Sanzari Children's Hospital and the John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) offers stem cell transplant patients a wide range of resources and personalized patient care. Patient and caregiver support groups led by certified psychosocial professionals are available on both the inpatient and outpatient units. Family members of pediatric patients have access to apartments at the Audrey Hepburn Children's House and are provided one caregiver meal per day when their child is inpatient. Our educational liaison is available to assist the family with school related issues. In addition the Cure and Beyond Program offers transplant survivors further evaluation, treatment and counseling for medical and psychosocial issues as they adjust to life post-transplant.

At the JTCC, patients have access to outpatient apartments and discounted rates at local hotels. There are numerous activities such as Yoga, Cardio and Weight Resistance offered throughout the week. The cooking studio offers lessons and demonstrations featuring delicious nutritious recipes. To promote recovery and healing ,a creative art workshop studio and tranquility room for reflection and mediation are available. Patients have access to a consumer health librarian that can access credible sources on the internet. For those patients that may require further treatment we are the largest photopheresis center in the area.

About the center

Overview

The adult division at the John Theurer Cancer Center and the pediatric program at the Joseph M Sanzari Children's Hospital offers their patients comprehensive, compassionate, and cutting edge stem cell therapy. The team at Hackensack University Medical Center has extensive experience in autologous, allogeneic, matched, mismatched, haploidentical and cord blood transplant. Both programs offer immune effector cell therapy.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1993 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since May 1996.

Attending physicians

Adult - Christina Cho, Michele Donato, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Sukhdeep Kaur, Hyung Suh, David Vesole

Pediatric - Burton Appel, Christine Camacho Bydume, Alfred Gillio, Johannes Zakrzwwski

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Hackensack Meridian Health, home to the Joseph Sanzari Children's Hospital and the John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) offers stem cell transplant patients a wide range of resources and personalized patient care. Patient and caregiver support groups led by certified psychosocial professionals are available on both the inpatient and outpatient units. Family members of pediatric patients have access to apartments at the Audrey Hepburn Children's House and are provided one caregiver meal per day when their child is inpatient. Our educational liaison is available to assist the family with school related issues. In addition the Cure and Beyond Program offers transplant survivors further evaluation, treatment and counseling for medical and psychosocial issues as they adjust to life post-transplant.

At the JTCC, patients have access to outpatient apartments and discounted rates at local hotels. There are numerous activities such as Yoga, Cardio and Weight Resistance offered throughout the week. The cooking studio offers lessons and demonstrations featuring delicious nutritious recipes. To promote recovery and healing ,a creative art workshop studio and tranquility room for reflection and mediation are available. Patients have access to a consumer health librarian that can access credible sources on the internet. For those patients that may require further treatment we are the largest photopheresis center in the area.

Overall center survival


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:

  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 411 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 70.5%.

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 68.5% and 76.7%.

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


760

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 33 62 0 95
Unrelated donor 11 118 0 129
Total allogeneic 44 180 0 224
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
536
-- 536
Total combined
760 0 760

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


57

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 19 3 0 22
Unrelated donor 14 6 5 25
Total allogeneic 33 9 5 47
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
10
-- 10
Total combined
52 5 57

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 21 28 44 23 116
Unrelated 25 22 49 58 154
Autologous 10 41 274 221 546
Total 56 91 367 302 816

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:
Barbara Adler-Brecher
(914) 263-8861
Email: barbara.adler-brecher@hmhn.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

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