The Launceston site of Tasmania's statewide bone marrow transplant service, where the state health department says stem cells are collected before transplant.
This entry covers the part played by the Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania's statewide bone marrow transplant service, as described by the Tasmanian Department of Health. It is important to be clear about what the department says happens where: according to the page, stem cells are collected at either the Launceston General Hospital or the Royal Hobart Hospital, in the haematology oncology day unit, but the transplants themselves are not performed in Launceston.
The department states that autologous transplants - those using the patient's own cells - are performed at the Royal Hobart Hospital, either as an inpatient or in the day unit. For allogeneic transplants, where the cells come from a donor, the department says patients travel interstate, usually to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, with support from the Tasmanian team.
The conditions named on the page are leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and certain autoimmune diseases. This is haematopoietic, or blood-forming, stem cell transplantation given as part of cancer and blood-disorder treatment. It is a long-established hospital procedure and is a different thing from the injected cell treatments sold by private regenerative medicine clinics; the two should not be read across.
The page gives telephone numbers rather than addresses: a statewide bone marrow transplant coordinator on 6166 8078, the Royal Hobart Hospital on 6166 8308 and the Launceston General Hospital on 6777 6777. It names no individual clinicians and says nothing about cost. Anyone wanting treatment would be referred through their own doctor.
The statewide service page names these conditions.
The site says stem cells are collected here for the statewide bone marrow transplant service; it does not describe the collection method or the cells in any detail.
The page names no individual clinicians, only a statewide bone marrow transplant coordinator.
The department's page describes a haematology oncology day unit at the Launceston General Hospital used for stem cell collection, as one of two such sites in the state. No street address, ward number, accreditation or description of the premises appears on the page, and no languages are listed. The only contact details given are hospital switchboard and coordinator telephone numbers.
The page says nothing about cost. It describes a service of the Tasmanian public health system, reached by referral.
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.