University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Overview

Excellence in patient care is the centerpiece of our program. It rests on continued research, both in the laboratory and at the bedside. As part of the NCI-designated Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, we are fully committed to research that leads to improvements in the outcome of this therapy.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1980 and has been an NMDP transplant center since July 1987.

Attending physicians

Adult - Umar Farooq, Margarida de Magalhaes-Silverman, Kit Poonsombudlert, Hira Shaikh, Chris Strouse
Pediatric - Grinde Krista, Rajat Sharma

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Our hospital works closely with the Ronald McDonald House, Hope Lodge and has a contract with a local hotel to help provide housing for patients and families. Our Children's Hospital provides tutoring services from late August to early June to help meet the child's schooling needs.

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 167 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 79%.

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 70.3% and 82.5%.

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

229

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 4	PBSC 14	Cord blood 0	Total 18
Unrelated donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 62	Cord blood 0	Total 62
Total allogeneic	Marrow 4	PBSC 76	Cord blood 0	Total 80
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 149	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 149
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 229	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 229

Total pediatric transplants

10

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 4	PBSC 1	Cord blood 1	Total 6
Unrelated donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 0	Cord blood 2	Total 2
Total allogeneic	Marrow 4	PBSC 1	Cord blood 3	Total 8
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 2	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 2
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 7	PBSC —	Cord blood 3	Total 10

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 6	19-44 6	45-64 9	65+ 3	Total 24
Unrelated	0-18 2	19-44 22	45-64 32	65+ 8	Total 64
Autologous	0-18 3	19-44 26	45-64 67	65+ 55	Total 151
Total	0-18 11	19-44 54	45-64 108	65+ 66	Total 239

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

Melissa Bodecker

Phone: 319-353-6799

Email: melissa-bodecker@uiowa.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

This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.

Please select the program you are interested in.