Penn State Health
Location
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Section of Hematology/Oncology, CH-35
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033
Direct phone: (717) 531-5647
http://www.hmc.psu.edu/
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 8
- PBSC: 138
- Cord Blood: 1
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 212
About the center
Overview
Advanced transplantation services include stem cell processing for both autologous and allogeneic adult and pediatric transplantation, with dedicated adult and pediatric units.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1996 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since May 2001.
Attending physicians
Adult - Joseph Cioccio, W. Christopher Ehmann, Raymond Hohl, Shin Mineishi, Seema Naik, Kevin Rakszawski, Baldeep Wirk, Hong Zheng
Pediatric - Valerie Brown, Robert Greiner
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Adult and pediatric
Other programs and services
CAR-T Cellular Therapy
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 2019, 2020, 2021, 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 74.0%.
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 65.0% and 77.4%.
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
342
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 1 | 47 | 0 | 48 |
Unrelated donor | ||||
Total allogeneic | 1 | 137 | 0 | 138 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 204 |
-- | 204 | ||
Total combined | ||||
342 | 0 | 342 |
Number of pediatric transplants
Total pediatric transplants
17
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Unrelated donor | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Total allogeneic | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 8 |
-- | 8 | ||
Total combined | ||||
16 | 1 | 17 |
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 | 3 | 13 | 24 | 11 | 51 |
Unrelated | 6 | 12 | 43 | 35 | 96 |
Autologous | 8 | 18 | 99 | 87 | 212 |
Total | 17 | 43 | 166 | 133 | 359 |
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:
Jessica Valentin
Email: jvalentin1@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
Financial representative:
Jill Nicklaus
(717) 531-4901
Email:
jnicklaus@pennstatehealth.psu.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.