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Tufts Medical Center

Location

Tufts Medical Center
Bone Marrow Transplant Program
800 Washington Street
Box 245
Boston, MA 02111
Direct phone: (617) 636-0154
Toll-free: (866) 636-5001

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 0
  • PBSC: 14
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 46
Performs adult transplants

Overview

Founded in 1987 and FACT accredited since 2000, our BMT program provides clinical excellence and individualized compassionate care to both adults and teenagers. We offer a comprehensive range of services including matched and mismatched related and unrelated donor and umbilical cord blood transplants with myeloablative and reduced intensity conditioning regimens. The adult program has expertise in treating the older and high risk patient. Housing is available at the Neely House, a beautiful "home away from home" located within the hospital campus.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1987 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since June 1995.

Attending physicians

Adult - Raymond Comenzo, Andreas Klein, Hrvoje Melinscak

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

Discounted housing at Neely House
Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program
Adult Survivorship Cancer Program

About the center

Overview

Founded in 1987 and FACT accredited since 2000, our BMT program provides clinical excellence and individualized compassionate care to both adults and teenagers. We offer a comprehensive range of services including matched and mismatched related and unrelated donor and umbilical cord blood transplants with myeloablative and reduced intensity conditioning regimens. The adult program has expertise in treating the older and high risk patient. Housing is available at the Neely House, a beautiful "home away from home" located within the hospital campus.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1987 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since June 1995.

Attending physicians

Adult - Raymond Comenzo, Andreas Klein, Hrvoje Melinscak

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

Discounted housing at Neely House
Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program
Adult Survivorship Cancer Program

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 23 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 73.9%.

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 62.3% and 94.2%.

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


60

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 0 5 0 5
Unrelated donor 0 9 0 9
Total allogeneic 0 14 0 14
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
46
-- 46
Total combined
60 0 60

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 0 4 1 5
Unrelated 0 5 1 3 9
Autologous 2 7 23 14 46
Total 2 12 28 18 60

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:
Deborah Black
(617) 636-0154
Email: deborah.black@tuftsmedicine.org

Financial representative:
Christine Stunzenas
(617) 636-4901
Email: christine.stunzenas@tuftsmedicine.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

Survivorship program

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