A stem cell transplant and cellular therapy programme within MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, treating adults and children with blood cancers and related conditions.
According to its website, the Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Center is a department of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The site describes it as one of the largest facilities in the world for stem cell transplants, stating that it carries out more than 850 procedures a year for adults and children, and that this is more than any other centre in the country. As a hospital-based programme rather than a standalone clinic, it treats patients within a large academic cancer centre.
The site lists the conditions treated as including aplastic anaemia (a bone marrow failure disorder), leukaemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome (a group of bone marrow disorders), Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia, and certain solid tumours such as breast, ovarian and testicular cancer. Related services described on the site include monitoring and management of graft-versus-host disease (a complication in which donor cells react against the recipient's body), a laboratory for processing collected cells, and apheresis and stem cell collection, which the site says exceeds 1,000 collections a year.
The centre's overview page does not itself specify which transplant types are performed, but subpages the site links to describe a matched unrelated donor programme, recognised by the National Marrow Donor Program, and a haploidentical transplant programme, in which a partially matched family member acts as the donor. The site's team page names more than two dozen clinical faculty across adult and paediatric transplant medicine, all based at the Texas Medical Center campus, though it does not attach individual credentials or subspecialties to each name on that page.
The site does not publish pricing, stating instead that treatment is provided through the hospital's clinical services; patients would need to check with their insurer and the centre's billing office about coverage and cost. Contact details given are a general phone line for current patients and a separate line for new patients.
The site lists the following as conditions treated through the programme.
The site describes stem cell transplantation and related cellular therapies but its main overview page does not itself break down which transplant types are used for which conditions.
The site's team page names the following clinicians as practising at the Texas Medical Center location, without listing individual subspecialties.
The programme is based within MD Anderson Cancer Center's Main Building at the Texas Medical Center campus in Houston, on the eighth floor near Elevator B. As part of a large academic cancer hospital, it has on-site apheresis, cell processing and survivorship services rather than operating as an independent outpatient clinic.
The site does not publish pricing for transplant or cellular therapy procedures; as a hospital-based cancer programme, cost would depend on diagnosis, insurance coverage and treatment plan, which a patient would need to discuss with the centre's billing office.
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.