UNC Hospitals
Location
Bone Marrow Transplant Program
101 Manning Drive
Rm C2385
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-7218
Direct phone: (984) 974-8333
http://unclineberger.org/bmt
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 23
- PBSC: 92
- Cord Blood: 4
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 209
About the center
Overview
Formed in 1992, UNC is a FACT-accredited transplant program affiliated with the NCI-designated Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. We provide a multidisciplinary team approach to related/unrelated allogeneic and autologous transplant candidates for children and adults with a variety of hematologic/solid tumor diseases.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1993 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since December 1995.
Attending physicians
Adult - Paul Armistead, James Coghill, Katarzyna Jamieson, Jonathan Serody, Astha Thakkar, Ben Vincent, William Wood
Pediatric - George Hucks, Kimberly Kasow, Michael Winstead
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Adult and pediatric
Other programs and services
Our Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program is a comprehensive adult and pediatric program that is FACT accredited for both autologous and allogeneic transplants. We have discounted housing available within a few miles of campus through our SECU Family House (http://www.secufamilyhouse.org) and The Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill (http://rmh-chapelhill.org). Our patients receive personalized care throughout the BMT process with a dedicated team of BMT physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and specifically assigned Transplant Nurse Coordinators. Your care team also includes BMT-specific RNs, Social Workers, Nutritionists, Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners, Recreational Therapists, Child Life Therapists and School Teachers. Our Comprehensive Cancer Support Program (CCSP) (https://unclineberger.org/patientcare/support/ccsp) is dedicated to helping patients and their caregivers with cancer treatment, recovery and survivorship by providing compassionate and effective care for all cancer patients and their families. We are proud to also offer individualized AYA cancer support for adolescent and young adult patients facing a cancer diagnosis (https://uncaya.org) . The program brings together experts from different professions and areas of expertise to bring you and your loved ones the help you need.
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 154 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 79.2%.
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 71.7% and 84.2%.
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
301
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 4 | 30 | 0 | 34 |
Unrelated donor | ||||
Total allogeneic | 10 | 92 | 0 | 102 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 199 |
-- | 199 | ||
Total combined | ||||
301 | 0 | 301 |
Number of pediatric transplants
Total pediatric transplants
27
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 7 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Unrelated donor | 6 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
Total allogeneic | 13 | 0 | 4 | 17 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 10 |
-- | 10 | ||
Total combined | ||||
23 | 4 | 27 |
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 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 41 |
Unrelated | 9 | 17 | 24 | 27 | 77 |
Autologous | 11 | 27 | 100 | 71 | 209 |
Total | 29 | 54 | 138 | 106 | 327 |
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:
Paula Marinis
984-974-8335
Email: paula.marinis@unchealth.unc.edu
Financial representative:
Charlotte Haithcox
Email:
charlotte.haithcox@unchealth.unc.edu
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
No survivorship program information is available. Contact the center for information about post-transplant care.