A publicly funded hospital blood and marrow transplant programme in Winnipeg, part of CancerCare Manitoba, treating blood cancers and related disorders.
The Manitoba Blood and Marrow Transplant Programme is run by CancerCare Manitoba in Winnipeg. According to its page on the CancerCare Manitoba site, the programme carries out blood and marrow transplantation, a procedure the site describes as giving a patient stem cells after chemotherapy has been used to destroy cancer cells.
The site states that the stem cells used may come from the patient living with cancer, which it calls autologous (from the patient's own body); from a living donor, which it calls allogeneic (from a donor); or from an identical twin donor, which it calls syngeneic. It states that chemotherapy is given before the transplant.
The programme also has a data and registry function. The site states that it collects transplant data for quality assurance, statistics and research, and submits that data to international registries including the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry and the Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group.
The page points readers to OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network for donor matching and states that people aged 17 to 35 may register as donors. The page does not name individual transplant physicians and does not discuss cost.
The site lists the following diseases as treated by the programme.
The site describes haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, in which stem cells from the patient, a living donor or an identical twin are given after chemotherapy.
The page does not name individual physicians working in the programme.
The programme is part of CancerCare Manitoba, the province's cancer agency, and is based in Winnipeg. The site gives a registry office address on McDermot Avenue in Winnipeg together with telephone and fax numbers. It does not describe the inpatient transplant unit, the number of beds or the premises in any further detail.
The page says nothing about cost. This is a programme within Manitoba's publicly funded cancer service, but the site itself makes no statement about fees, so no pricing information can be reported.
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.