University of Alabama at Birmingham

Overview

UAB Medicine's Blood Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy provides an entire range of blood and marrow transplant options for patients in Alabama and surrounding states. We aim to provide our patients and families with expert and honest, compassionate recommendations to assure they have the best possible outcomes.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1992 and has been an NMDP transplant center since November 1995.

Attending physicians

Adult - Susan Bal, Ravi Bhatia, Joseph Chewning, Luciano Costa, Antonio Di Stasi, Ravi Gayathri, Omer Jamy, Razan Mohty, Donna E. Salzman, Lauren Shea
Pediatric - Joseph Chewning, Hilary Haines

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

The UAB Medicine's Blood & Marrow Transplant Program has many additional supportive services to aide patient & family caregivers through the transplant process. Supportive services include: -Dedicated BMT staff in a plethora of areas-Multi-disciplinary patient education to prepare patients for discharge from transplant admission, educational materials are on paper and also available online -Nearby accommodations at American Cancer Society Hope Lodge for most patients at no charge -Ronald McDonald House is adjacent to hospital campus at a nominal fee for families of pediatric patients -Various local hotels offer discount rates, all provide shuttle service to hospital campus -Participation in the NMDP Care -Dedicated Adult Inpatient Music Therapist -Extensive Spiritual Care Services both inpatient & outpatient (Chaplains available from many faiths) -Many outpatient services including: Educational Resource Center (pamphlets, brochures, computer terminals for searches, WiFi for internet access and conference area for discussion with Cancer Center Personnel), Nutritional Counseling, Chemotherapy Education; Patient Liaison for immediate non-medical issues; Art Therapy; Fertility Preservation Counseling and Services; For pediatric patients there is an on-sight public school teacher and classroom (or can go to patient's room if necessary) assisting students to keep current with their school work.

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 231 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 73%.

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 71.6% and 81.8%.

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

463

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 1	PBSC 62	Cord blood 0	Total 63
Unrelated donor	Marrow 2	PBSC 88	Cord blood 0	Total 90
Total allogeneic	Marrow 3	PBSC 150	Cord blood 0	Total 153
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 310	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 310
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 463	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 463

Total pediatric transplants

59

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 17	PBSC 0	Cord blood 0	Total 17
Unrelated donor	Marrow 8	PBSC 5	Cord blood 3	Total 16
Total allogeneic	Marrow 25	PBSC 5	Cord blood 3	Total 33
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 26	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 26
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 56	PBSC —	Cord blood 3	Total 59

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 17	19-44 23	45-64 33	65+ 7	Total 80
Unrelated	0-18 17	19-44 24	45-64 35	65+ 30	Total 106
Autologous	0-18 26	19-44 40	45-64 143	65+ 127	Total 336
Total	0-18 60	19-44 87	45-64 211	65+ 164	Total 522

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

Emily Wood

Phone: 205-934-1911

Email: ewood@uabmc.edu

If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center’s direct phone number.

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

No survivorship program information is available. Contact the center for information about post-transplant care.