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Adult/Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program

Division of Stem Cell Therapy

2400 Pratt Street, Box 3961, Suite 5000

Durham, NC 27705

Phone: (919) 684-8964

Transplant Summary

From January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023

Program type: Adult, Pediatric

Marrow

115

PBSC

Cord Blood

297

Autologous*

*PBSC or marrow

Overview

The transplant program at Duke offers comprehensive care to Adult and Pediatrics patients. Care units for Adult and Pediatric inpatients and outpatients is delivered in distinct care sites by dedicated, trained healthcare professionals. Full support services are available.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1990 and has been an NMDP transplant center since March 1992.

Attending physicians

Adult - Edwin Alyea, Andrea Bauchat, Nelson Chao, Taewoong Choi, Cristina Gasparetto, Sanghee Hong, Mitchell Horwitz, Gwynn Long, Richard Lopez, Kris Mahadeo, Sendhilnathan Ramalingam, Stefanie Sarantopolous, Anthony Sung
Pediatric - Timothy Driscoll, Joanne Kurtzberg, Paul Martin, Vinod Prasad

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Adult Program:
ABMT New Patient and Discharge class for patients and caregivers.
Transplant Coordinator to help navigate the transplant journey.
Weekly Caregiver Support group in the outpatient day hospital.
Monthly Caregiver Support group on the inpatient unit.
Local housing options available at reduced rates.

Pediatric Program:
Pediatric Child Life Program with dedicated Child Life Therapist.
Hospital school for all school aged children during the school year.
Family Support Program.
Best Buddies Program.
Cellmates- children's support group.
Parent Support Group.
Sibling program. Newsletter: The Community Counts.
Ronald McDonald House availability.

Patient survival information for this center

Duke University - Adults

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 192 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 70.8%.

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 65.1% 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.

Duke University Medical Center; Pediatric BMT

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 66 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 86.4%.

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 69.9% and 88.3%.

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.

* 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

404

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 13	PBSC 47	Cord blood 0	Total 60
Unrelated donor	Marrow 4	PBSC 64	Cord blood 7	Total 75
Total allogeneic	Marrow 17	PBSC 111	Cord blood 7	Total 135
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 269	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 269
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 397	PBSC —	Cord blood 7	Total 404

Total pediatric transplants

71

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 15	PBSC 3	Cord blood 0	Total 18
Unrelated donor	Marrow 12	PBSC 1	Cord blood 12	Total 25
Total allogeneic	Marrow 27	PBSC 4	Cord blood 12	Total 43
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 28	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 28
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 59	PBSC —	Cord blood 12	Total 71

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 15	19-44 18	45-64 25	65+ 20	Total 78
Unrelated	0-18 24	19-44 21	45-64 31	65+ 24	Total 100
Autologous	0-18 27	19-44 31	45-64 138	65+ 101	Total 297
Total	0-18 66	19-44 70	45-64 194	65+ 145	Total 475

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
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Transplants performed

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Other programs and services

Patient survival information for this center

Duke University - Adults

Duke University Medical Center; Pediatric BMT

Total adult transplants

404

Total pediatric transplants

71

All Diseases

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