The paediatric blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapy service at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy.
Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock runs a paediatric blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapy programme within its cancer and blood disorders service. The site gives the telephone number 501-364-1100 for the Little Rock hospital and 479-725-6800 for Arkansas Children's Northwest in Springdale.
According to the site, the programme performs autologous transplants, in which a child's own blood-forming stem cells are collected and returned after treatment, and allogeneic transplants, in which the stem cells come from a donor who may be a relative or an unrelated volunteer. The cells may be drawn from bone marrow, from the bloodstream as peripheral blood stem cells, or from donated umbilical cord blood.
The site also says the hospital is a certified site for tisagenlecleucel, sold as Kymriah, a CAR T-cell therapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. It describes this as using the patient's own genetically modified T cells against the cancer. This is an established, licensed cell therapy, quite different from the injection treatments offered by many private clinics.
The site states that the service holds accreditation from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy, usually shortened to FACT, and its news pages record that accreditation being awarded and renewed. No prices are published; this is a hospital programme in which treatment is arranged through referral and cover rather than sold directly.
The site names the following as the cancers, immune deficiencies and genetic blood disorders the programme treats.
The site describes a transplant service using blood-forming stem cells from the child's own body or from a donor, together with a licensed genetically modified T-cell therapy.
The site names the following clinicians in connection with the programme.
The programme sits within Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, a paediatric hospital, with a second campus, Arkansas Children's Northwest, in Springdale. The site states that the blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapy service is accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy, and its news pages record that accreditation being granted and renewed.
The site publishes no prices. This is a paediatric hospital transplant programme reached by referral, and cost is handled through insurance and hospital financial services rather than advertised.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.