Hackensack University Medical Center
Location
Hackensack Meridian Health
BMT and Cellular Therapy Program
30 Prospect Avenue
Hackensack, NJ 7601
Direct phone: (551) 996-5600
http://www.hackensackumc.org/
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 76
- PBSC: 178
- Cord Blood: 2
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 574
About the center
Overview
The adult division at the John Theurer Cancer Center and the pediatric program at the Joseph M Sanzari Children's Hospital offers their patients comprehensive, compassionate, and cutting edge stem cell therapy. The team at Hackensack University Medical Center has extensive experience in autologous, allogeneic, matched, mismatched, haploidentical and cord blood transplant. Both programs offer immune effector cell therapy.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1993 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since May 1996.
Attending physicians
Adult - Christina Cho, Michele Donato, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Sukhdeep Kaur, Hyung Suh, David Vesole
Pediatric - Burton Appel, Christine Camacho Bydume, Alfred Gillio, Johannes Zakrzwwski
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Adult and pediatric
Other programs and services
Hackensack Meridian Health, home to the Joseph Sanzari Children's Hospital and the John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) offers stem cell transplant patients a wide range of resources and personalized patient care. Patient and caregiver support groups led by certified psychosocial professionals are available on both the inpatient and outpatient units. Family members of pediatric patients have access to apartments at the Audrey Hepburn Children's House and are provided one caregiver meal per day when their child is inpatient. Our educational liaison is available to assist the family with school related issues. In addition the Cure and Beyond Program offers transplant survivors further evaluation, treatment and counseling for medical and psychosocial issues as they adjust to life post-transplant.
At the JTCC, patients have access to outpatient apartments and discounted rates at local hotels. There are numerous activities such as Yoga, Cardio and Weight Resistance offered throughout the week. The cooking studio offers lessons and demonstrations featuring delicious nutritious recipes. To promote recovery and healing ,a creative art workshop studio and tranquility room for reflection and mediation are available. Patients have access to a consumer health librarian that can access credible sources on the internet. For those patients that may require further treatment we are the largest photopheresis center in the area.
Overall center survival
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 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 419 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 69.6%.
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 71.5% and 79.3%.
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.
Number of adult transplants
Total adult transplants
793
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 40 | 49 | 0 | 89 |
Unrelated donor | ||||
Total allogeneic | 53 | 172 | 0 | 225 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 568 |
-- | 568 | ||
Total combined | ||||
793 | 0 | 793 |
Number of pediatric transplants
Total pediatric transplants
37
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 12 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
Unrelated donor | 11 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
Total allogeneic | 23 | 6 | 2 | 31 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 6 |
-- | 6 | ||
Total combined | ||||
35 | 2 | 37 |
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 | 14 | 24 | 41 | 23 | 102 |
Unrelated | 16 | 21 | 53 | 62 | 152 |
Autologous | 6 | 44 | 302 | 222 | 575 |
Total | 36 | 89 | 396 | 307 | 829 |
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:
Barbara Adler-Brecher
(914) 263-8861
Email: barbara.adler-brecher@hmhn.org
If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.
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.