Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
Location
Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
1600 Rockland Road
Wilmington, DE 19803
Direct phone: (302) 651-4000
http://www.nemours.org/locations/delaware/naidhc.html
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 8
- PBSC: 5
- Cord Blood: 0
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 9
About the center
Overview
The objectives of the BBMT program are the following: Assure the quality and safety of care provided to transplant patients. To provide excellent and compassionate care for patients and their families who are under going hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation. Ensure consistent coordination and continuity of care across all disciplines. Establish a foundation of Continuous Performance Improvement (CPI) that reflects Nemours commitment to quality.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2001. This center is not a member of the NMDP/Be The Match transplant center network.
Attending physicians
Pediatric - E. Anders Kolb, Emi Caywood, Darcy Hamill, Spencer Mangum, Jonathan Powell
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC only
Cord blood transplants performed on
Not performed
Other programs and services
Pet Therapy, Music Therapy, School Program, Healing Touch, Child Life, Patient Navigation, Cancer Care Coordinator, Ronald McDonald House, Caregiver programs, family centered rounds, Family Advisory Council, Palliative Care Program.
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 2017, 2018, 2019, 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 32 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 65.6%.
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 74.0% and 97.3%.
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.
Total transplants
Total transplants
22
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2019 to December 31st, 2020 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Unrelated donor | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
Total allogeneic | 8 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 9 |
-- | 9 | ||
Total combined | ||||
22 | 0 | 22 |
Transplants by disease
All diseases
Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2019 to December 31st, 2020 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)
0-18 | 19-44 | 45-64 | 65+ | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Related | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Unrelated | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Autologous | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Total | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
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:
Lauren Micale
(302) 298-7074
Email: lauren.micale@nemours.org
Financial representative:
Kaitlin Ditmore
(302) 651-4322
Email:
kaitlin.ditmore@nemours.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