The autologous stem cell transplant service of Epworth HealthCare, a Melbourne private hospital group, with inpatient care at Epworth Freemasons in East Melbourne.
Epworth HealthCare is a Melbourne private hospital group, and its site describes autologous stem cell transplant as one of the immunotherapy treatments it provides. The page is explicit that patients are admitted to, and recover at, Epworth Freemasons in East Melbourne, which is the location this record names.
The site describes the treatment in six steps. Medication is given first to mobilise stem cells out of the bone marrow and into the bloodstream. The cells are then collected by apheresis, a process the site says takes three to five hours, and are frozen and stored - according to the page, at Snowdome Laboratories in Richmond. The patient is then admitted for high-dose chemotherapy, after which the stored cells are returned by infusion and settle back into the bone marrow, a process called engraftment. The site gives a typical inpatient stay of seventeen to twenty-one days.
According to the page, the treatment is used for lymphoma, where it says the aim is a potential cure, and for multiple myeloma, where it says the aim is to extend remission. Those are the site's own statements of intent, not outcome figures, and it publishes no success rates.
This is haematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cell transplantation given as part of cancer treatment. It is a long-established hospital procedure and is a different thing from the injected cell treatments offered by private regenerative medicine clinics; the two should not be read across. The page names no individual clinicians, gives no street address or telephone number and says nothing about cost, so those details need to be confirmed with the hospital.
The page names two conditions for which the transplant is used.
The site describes an autologous transplant - the patient's own blood-forming stem cells are mobilised, collected, frozen, and given back by infusion after high-dose chemotherapy.
The treatment page names no individual clinicians.
The page describes the treatment as spanning two sites within the Epworth group and its partners. Collection and storage of the stem cells are said to take place at Snowdome Laboratories in Richmond, while admission for high-dose chemotherapy and the transplant itself, with a stated typical stay of seventeen to twenty-one days, take place at Epworth Freemasons in East Melbourne. The page gives no street address, telephone number, accreditation detail or list of languages.
The page says nothing about what the treatment costs 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.