Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Overview

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has experience performing adult and pediatric allogeneic related, haplo-identical and unrelated donor transplants. Our team consists of physicians, transplant nurse coordinators, transplant nurses, transplant oncology nurse coordinators, APPs (NPs and PAs), social workers, PharmDs, psychologists, nutritionists, child life specialists, physical and occupational therapists. The program was FACT accredited in 2002 and has continued with accreditation through current date.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1991 and has been an NMDP transplant center since June 1993.

Attending physicians

Adult - Joanne L. Becker, Brian Betts, Marco Davila, Shernan Holtan, Ehsan Malek, Philip L. McCarthy, Maureen Ross, Grant Schofield
Pediatric - Matthew Barth, Lauren Bruckner, Nataliya Buxbaum, Meghan Higman, Kanwal Mallhi

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Local lodging for out of town patients is available at reduced cost rates. Specialized patient and caregiver classes for all caregivers and patients, this is mandatory. Survivorship clinic is available. Monthly support groups for patients and caregivers is offered. Cancer coaches available to assist patients through the process. Coaches are matched as closely as possible in age and diagnosis.

Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are below 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 181 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 61.3%.

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 66.9% and 79%.

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

296

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 2	PBSC 37	Cord blood 0	Total 39
Unrelated donor	Marrow 2	PBSC 70	Cord blood 0	Total 72
Total allogeneic	Marrow 4	PBSC 107	Cord blood 0	Total 111
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 185	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 185
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 296	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 296

Total pediatric transplants

15

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 7	PBSC 0	Cord blood 0	Total 7
Unrelated donor	Marrow 7	PBSC 0	Cord blood 0	Total 7
Total allogeneic	Marrow 14	PBSC 0	Cord blood 0	Total 14
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 1	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 1
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 15	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 15

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 7	19-44 12	45-64 9	65+ 18	Total 46
Unrelated	0-18 7	19-44 13	45-64 25	65+ 34	Total 79
Autologous	0-18 2	19-44 26	45-64 78	65+ 80	Total 186
Total	0-18 16	19-44 51	45-64 112	65+ 132	Total 311

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

Lora Yoerg

Phone: (716) 845-8205

Email: lora.yoerg@roswellpark.org

Financial representative

Denise Stachoski

Phone: (716) 845-3411

Email: denise.stachoski@roswellpark.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.