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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Location

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Ave
Dana 2073
Boston, MA 2215
Direct phone: (617) 632-5138

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 150
  • PBSC: 540
  • Cord Blood: 12
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 494
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center hematopoietic stem cell transplantation program is an adult oncology effort of Dana-Farber and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital work together to provide pediatric stem cell transplantation.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1984 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 1989.

Attending physicians

Adult - Joseph H. Antin, Phillipe Armand, Corey Cutler, Christopher Gibson, Mahasweta Gooptu, Vincent Ho, Amar Kelkar, John Koreth, Sarah Nikiforow, Rizwan Romee, Roman Shapiro, Robert Soiffer

Pediatric - Suneet Agarwal, Francesca Alvarez Calderon, Susanne Baumeister, Christy Duncan, Ulrike Gerdemann, Lev Gorfinkel, Emily Heikamp, Malika Kapadia, Amy Keating, Leslie Lehmann, Miki Nishitani, Susan Prockop, Jared Rowe, Grant Rowe, Takuto Takahashi, Christina Ullrich, Franziska Wachter, Lara Wahlster

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Discounted and free housing resources on a need basis.

About the center

Overview

Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center hematopoietic stem cell transplantation program is an adult oncology effort of Dana-Farber and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital work together to provide pediatric stem cell transplantation.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1984 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 1989.

Attending physicians

Adult - Joseph H. Antin, Phillipe Armand, Corey Cutler, Christopher Gibson, Mahasweta Gooptu, Vincent Ho, Amar Kelkar, John Koreth, Sarah Nikiforow, Rizwan Romee, Roman Shapiro, Robert Soiffer

Pediatric - Suneet Agarwal, Francesca Alvarez Calderon, Susanne Baumeister, Christy Duncan, Ulrike Gerdemann, Lev Gorfinkel, Emily Heikamp, Malika Kapadia, Amy Keating, Leslie Lehmann, Miki Nishitani, Susan Prockop, Jared Rowe, Grant Rowe, Takuto Takahashi, Christina Ullrich, Franziska Wachter, Lara Wahlster

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Discounted and free housing resources on a need basis.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are above 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 759 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 79.3%.

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 71.2% and 77.2%.

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.

Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders 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 171 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 88.7%.

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 89.2%.

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.

Number of adult transplants

Total adult transplants


956

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 12 149 0 161
Unrelated donor 43 369 0 412
Total allogeneic 55 518 0 573
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
383
-- 383
Total combined
956 0 956

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


240

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 43 8 2 53
Unrelated donor 52 14 10 76
Total allogeneic 95 22 12 129
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
111
-- 111
Total combined
228 12 240

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 45 50 76 36 207
Unrelated 70 82 161 173 486
Autologous 104 83 211 96 494
Total 219 215 448 305 1187

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:
Gregory Bourdeau
(617) 632-5846
Email: gregory_bourdeau@dfci.harvard.edu

Financial representative:
Mariah Edwards
Email: mariah_edwards@dfci.harvard.edu

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

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