Tufts Medical Center
Location
Bone Marrow Transplant Program
800 Washington Street
Box 245
Boston, MA 02111
Direct phone: (617) 636-0154
Toll-free: (866) 636-5001
http://www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 4
- PBSC: 10
- Cord Blood: 0
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 47
About the center
Overview
Founded in 1987 and FACT accredited since 2000, our BMT program provides clinical excellence and individualized compassionate care to both adults and teenagers. We offer a comprehensive range of services including matched and mismatched related and unrelated donor and umbilical cord blood transplants with myeloablative and reduced intensity conditioning regimens. The adult program has expertise in treating the older and high risk patient. Housing is available at the Neely House, a beautiful "home away from home" located within the hospital campus.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1987 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since June 1995.
Attending physicians
Adult - Raymond Comenzo, Andreas Klein, Hrvoje Melinscak
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Adult only
Other programs and services
Discounted housing at Neely House
Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program
Adult Survivorship Cancer Program
Overall center survival
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 2018, 2019, 2020, 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 29 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 64.9%.
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 63.3% and 91.5%.
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.
Total transplants
Total transplants
61
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
Unrelated donor | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
Total allogeneic | 4 | 10 | 0 | 14 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 47 |
-- | 47 | ||
Total combined | ||||
61 | 0 | 61 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Unrelated | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
Autologous | 2 | 10 | 21 | 14 | 47 |
Total | 6 | 13 | 25 | 17 | 61 |
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:
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov
- List of diseases
Additional information
Transplant center resources
Transplant center coordinator:
Deborah Black
(617) 636-0154
Email: dblack@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Financial representative:
Christine Stunzenas
(617) 636-4901
Email:
cstunzenas@tuftsmedicalcenter.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
More resources
Survivorship program
This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.
Please select the program you are interested in.