The clinical haematology service of Austin Health, a Victorian public teaching hospital, which its site says performs autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplants.
Austin Health is a Victorian public health service, and the record places this haematology and transplant service at its Austin Hospital campus in Heidelberg. The service pages describe a hospital department rather than a private clinic: patients are seen through specialist outpatient clinics, treated in a day oncology and ambulatory care centre, and admitted to a hospital ward when inpatient care is needed.
According to the site, the service runs general haematology clinics on Monday mornings, Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings, together with a separate clinic for thrombosis and haemostasis - that is, for clotting and bleeding problems. Inpatients are cared for in Ward 7 South, and outpatient clinics are described as sitting on Level 3 of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre on the same campus.
The site states that the service treats patients having an autologous or an allogeneic stem cell transplant, and that a dedicated allogeneic bone marrow transplant unit opened in October 2015 for acute and chronic leukaemia, lymphoma, aplastic anaemia, myeloma and myelodysplasia. This is transplantation of blood-forming stem cells as part of cancer and blood-disorder treatment; it is not the kind of injected cell treatment that private regenerative clinics offer, and readers should not read across between the two.
A clinical trials programme and regular multidisciplinary meetings are also listed. The pages that could be retrieved name no individual clinicians, give no street address or telephone number and say nothing about cost; the hospital's contact pages returned errors when this record was made, so those details should be confirmed with the hospital directly.
The site names the following conditions in connection with its transplant unit and clinics.
The site describes haematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cell transplantation as part of its cancer and blood-disorder treatment, in both autologous and allogeneic forms.
The service pages that could be retrieved name no individual clinicians.
The site describes a hospital department spread across the Austin Hospital campus rather than a single consulting room. Inpatients are cared for in Ward 7 South; specialist outpatient clinics are described as being on Level 3 of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre; and outpatient treatment is given in a Day Oncology Centre and an Ambulatory Care Centre. The site also refers to the Austin Tower on the same campus. No street address, telephone number or accreditation details appear on the pages that could be retrieved, because the hospital's contact pages returned errors.
The pages retrieved say nothing at all about the cost of treatment or how it is funded.
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.