Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
Location
Peckham Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders
3020 Childrens Way
MC 5081
San Diego, CA 92123
Direct phone: (858) 966-1700
Toll-free: (800) 788-9029
http://www.rchsd.org/
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 17
- PBSC: 13
- Cord Blood: 8
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 15
About the center
Overview
At Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego our mission is to restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy. The blood and marrow transplantation and immune effector cell therapy programs are FACT accredited and committed to providing optimal hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy services with curative intent for children and young adults with selected malignant, blood, and immune related disorders.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1981 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since January 1992.
Attending physicians
Pediatric - Eric Anderson, Nicholas Gloude, William Roberts, Deborah Schiff, Helena Yu
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Pediatric only
Other programs and services
RCHSD has a school program on site.
Ronald McDonald housing is located across the street from the main hospital where designated caregivers have access to housing, showers, laundry facilities and free meals.
RCHSD has free local transportation services for Hematology/Oncology patients and caregivers.
Parent Liaisons, Social Workers, Psychologist, Supportive Care RN, Child Life Specialists and Chaplain provide emotional support to patients and families.
Thriving After Cancer Clinic (TACC), is available for our physicians to consider referring patients that are at least two years post-transplant.
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:
- Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, 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 44 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 88.6%.
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 78.6% and 97.3%.
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
53
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 4 | 12 | 0 | 16 |
Unrelated donor | 13 | 1 | 8 | 22 |
Total allogeneic | 17 | 13 | 8 | 38 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 15 |
-- | 15 | ||
Total combined | ||||
45 | 8 | 53 |
Transplants by disease
All diseases
Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)
0-18 | 19-44 | 45-64 | 65+ | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Related | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
Unrelated | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
Autologous | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
Total | 48 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 53 |
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:
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov
- List of diseases
Additional information
Transplant center resources
Transplant center coordinator:
Elizabeth Sheldon
(858) 966-1700 (ext 221637)
Email: esheldon@rchsd.org
If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.
Be The Match 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