City of Hope National Medical Center

Overview

City of Hope is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. It has performed allogenic transplants since 1974 and has been an NMDP transplant center since 1989. Areas of research include DNA typing for donor selection, new agents for prevention and treatment of GVHD, use of peripheral stem cells, and 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 transplant center since September 1989.

Attending physicians

Adult - Viabhav Agrawal, Monzr Al Malki, Ibrahim Aldoss, Haris Ali, Joseph Alvarnas, Idoroenyi Amanam, Ahmed Aribi, Shukaib Arslan, Andrew Artz, John Baird, Pamela Becker, Amanda Blackmon, Azra Borogovac, Ball Brian, Lihua Elizabeth Budde, Ji-Lian M. Cai, Peter Curtin, Alexey Danilov, Len Farol, Stephen J Forman, James Godfrey, Scott Goldsmith, Alex Herrera, Myo Htut, Scott James, Murali Janakiram, Robert Jenq, Avyakta Kallam, Swetha Kambhampati, Niloufer Khan, Paul Koller, Amrita Krishnan, Larry Kwak, Sarah Lee, Alexandria Levine, Joshua Mansour, Guido Marcucci, Matthew Mei, Caligiuri Michael, Ryo Nakamura, Nitya Nathwani, Salman Otoukesh, Tycel Phillips, Hoda Pourhassan, Vinod Pullarkat, Steven Rosen, Michael Rosenzweig, Firoozeh Sahebi, Amandeep Salhotra, Karamjeet Sandhu, Geoffrey Shouse, Tanya Siddiqi, Eileen Smith, Ricardo Spielberger, Anthony Stein, Forrest Stewart, Jasmine Zain
Pediatric - Nicole Karras, Anna Pawlowska, Joseph Rosenthal

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

City of Hope National Medical Center (Duarte) has resources for patients and their caregivers that provide an array of printed and electronic material, along with a selection of specialized classes. The center is equipped with employees to guide inquiries on treatment resources. Some resources include:
• Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center
• Notary
• HCT Discharge Class for Caregivers
• Caregivers Connect Group
• AYA Program – Adolescents and Young Adults Cancer Program
• On-Site Hotel

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 2020, 2021, 2022 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 1095 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 78%.

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 79.1%.

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.

* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.

The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.

Total adult transplants

1593

Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 10	PBSC 313	Cord blood 0	Total 323
Unrelated donor	Marrow 14	PBSC 475	Cord blood 2	Total 491
Total allogeneic	Marrow 24	PBSC 788	Cord blood 2	Total 814
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 779	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 779
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 1591	PBSC —	Cord blood 2	Total 1593

Total pediatric transplants

50

Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 18	PBSC 16	Cord blood 0	Total 34
Unrelated donor	Marrow 9	PBSC 3	Cord blood 1	Total 13
Total allogeneic	Marrow 27	PBSC 19	Cord blood 1	Total 47
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 3	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 3
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 49	PBSC —	Cord blood 1	Total 50

All Diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

	0-18	19-44	45-64	65+	Total
Related	0-18 36	19-44 112	45-64 147	65+ 62	Total 357
Unrelated	0-18 16	19-44 105	45-64 166	65+ 217	Total 504
Autologous	0-18 4	19-44 132	45-64 375	65+ 271	Total 782
Total	0-18 56	19-44 349	45-64 688	65+ 550	Total 1643

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 can be found:

U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
List of diseases

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator

Armida Pamintuan

Phone: (626) 218-1564

Email: apamintuan@coh.org

Financial representative

June Richetts

Phone: 626-218-8806

Email: jrichetts@coh.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

More resources

Choosing a transplant center
Preparing for transplant
Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
Support and resources (including non-English materials)
U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov

This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.

Please select the program you are interested in.