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Cook Children's Medical Center

Location

Cook Children's Medical Center
1500 Cooper Street 5th floor
Fort Worth, TX 76104
Direct phone: (682) 885-4000
Toll-free: (800) 934-2665 ext 2580

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 40
  • PBSC: 6
  • Cord Blood: 1
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 53
Performs pediatric transplants

Overview

One of the largest pediatric transplant centers in the Southwest, with experience across a diverse spectrum of diseases, both malignant and non-malignant. Recipient of national awards for efforts with early referrals and urgent searches. Multidisciplinary approach to medical care.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1986 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since August 1990.

Attending physicians

Adult - Gretchen Eames, Richard Howrey

Pediatric - Gretchen Eames, Richard Howrey

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Ronald McDonald House serves families from out of town that are receiving treatment at Cook Children's Medical Center. There are many hotels near the hospital as well. Upon referral to Cook Children's you will be assigned a licensed social worker to help you with lodging and other travel assistance you may need.

About the center

Overview

One of the largest pediatric transplant centers in the Southwest, with experience across a diverse spectrum of diseases, both malignant and non-malignant. Recipient of national awards for efforts with early referrals and urgent searches. Multidisciplinary approach to medical care.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1986 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since August 1990.

Attending physicians

Adult - Gretchen Eames, Richard Howrey

Pediatric - Gretchen Eames, Richard Howrey

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Ronald McDonald House serves families from out of town that are receiving treatment at Cook Children's Medical Center. There are many hotels near the hospital as well. Upon referral to Cook Children's you will be assigned a licensed social worker to help you with lodging and other travel assistance you may need.

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 61 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 83.6%.

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 79.0% and 95.1%.

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


100

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 36 5 0 41
Unrelated donor 4 1 1 6
Total allogeneic 40 6 1 47
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
53
-- 53
Total combined
99 1 100

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 39 2 0 0 41
Unrelated 5 1 0 0 6
Autologous 49 3 1 0 53
Total 93 6 1 0 100

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:
Stephanie Tettleton
(682) 885-5669
Email: stephanie.tettleton@cookchildrens.org

Financial representative:
Cecy Gonzales
(682) 885-3986
Email: cecy.gonzalez@cookchildrens.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

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