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City of Hope National Medical Center

Location

City of Hope National Medical Center
Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplant
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, CA 91010-0269
Direct phone: (626) 256-4673
Toll-free: (800) 535-7119

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021
  • Marrow: 44
  • PBSC: 731
  • Cord Blood: 6
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 738
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

City of Hope is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Areas of research include DNA typing for donor selection, new agents for prevention and treatment of GVHD, use of peripheral stem cells, reduced intensity or low-dose regimens for older patients or those with co-morbid medical conditions.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1975 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since September 1989.

Attending physicians

Adult - Viabhav Agrawal, Monzr Al Malki, Ibrahim Aldoss, Levine Alexandria, Haris Ali, Joseph Alvarnas, Idoroenyi Amanam, Ahmed Aribi, Shukaib Arslan, Andrew Artz, Lihua Elizabeth Budde, Ji-Lian M. Cai, Thai Cao, Peter Curtin, Alexey Danilov, Len Farol, Stephen J Forman, Alex Herrera, Pourhassan Hoda, Myo Htut, Godfrey James, Paul Koller, Amrita Krishnan, Kwak Larry, Guido Marcucci, Matthew Mei, Caligiuri Michael M.D., Ryo Nakamura, Nitya Nathwani, Liana Nikolaenko, Salman Otoukesh, Leslie Popplewell, Vinod Pullarkat, Michael Rosenzweig, Firoozeh Sahebi, Amandeep Salhotra, Karamjeet Sandhu, Goldsmith Scott, Geoffrey Shouse, Tanya Siddiqi, Eileen Smith, Ricardo Spielberger, Anthony Stein, Rosen Steven, Forrest Stewart , Jasmine Zain

Pediatric - Nicole Karras, Anna Pawlowska, Joseph Rosenthal

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Information on this topic was not provided.

About the center

Overview

City of Hope is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Areas of research include DNA typing for donor selection, new agents for prevention and treatment of GVHD, use of peripheral stem cells, reduced intensity or low-dose regimens for older patients or those with co-morbid medical conditions.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1975 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since September 1989.

Attending physicians

Adult - Viabhav Agrawal, Monzr Al Malki, Ibrahim Aldoss, Levine Alexandria, Haris Ali, Joseph Alvarnas, Idoroenyi Amanam, Ahmed Aribi, Shukaib Arslan, Andrew Artz, Lihua Elizabeth Budde, Ji-Lian M. Cai, Thai Cao, Peter Curtin, Alexey Danilov, Len Farol, Stephen J Forman, Alex Herrera, Pourhassan Hoda, Myo Htut, Godfrey James, Paul Koller, Amrita Krishnan, Kwak Larry, Guido Marcucci, Matthew Mei, Caligiuri Michael M.D., Ryo Nakamura, Nitya Nathwani, Liana Nikolaenko, Salman Otoukesh, Leslie Popplewell, Vinod Pullarkat, Michael Rosenzweig, Firoozeh Sahebi, Amandeep Salhotra, Karamjeet Sandhu, Goldsmith Scott, Geoffrey Shouse, Tanya Siddiqi, Eileen Smith, Ricardo Spielberger, Anthony Stein, Rosen Steven, Forrest Stewart , Jasmine Zain

Pediatric - Nicole Karras, Anna Pawlowska, Joseph Rosenthal

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Information on this topic was not provided.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this 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 2018, 2019, 2020, 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 1074 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 74.4% and 79.2%.

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


1472

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 14 331 0 345
Unrelated donor 8 382 4 394
Total allogeneic 22 713 4 739
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
733
-- 733
Total combined
1468 4 1472

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


47

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 12 13 0 25
Unrelated donor 10 5 2 17
Total allogeneic 22 18 2 42
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
5
-- 5
Total combined
45 2 47

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 26 122 166 50 364
Unrelated 17 91 150 153 411
Autologous 7 113 371 247 738
Total 50 326 687 450 1513

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:
Armida Pamintuan
(626) 218-1564
Email: apamintuan@coh.org

Financial representative:
June Richetts
626-218-8806
Email: jrichetts@coh.org

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

Survivorship program

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