A hospital-based blood cancer and stem cell transplant programme at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, part of the Methodist Healthcare system.
According to its website, the Adult Blood Cancer and Stem Cell Transplant Clinic operates as part of Methodist Hospital within the Methodist Healthcare system in San Antonio, Texas. The site describes it as one of the nation's premier blood and marrow transplant programmes, stating it was the first programme in the United States accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT, a body that certifies cell therapy and transplant programmes), and that it has completed more than 4,000 transplants since it began.
Services listed include bone marrow biopsies, chemotherapy infusions, blood transfusions, transplant evaluations and infusions, gene therapy, immunotherapy, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy — a treatment in which a patient's own immune cells are modified to target cancer — and blood and marrow transplant procedures generally. A related page on the wider Methodist Healthcare site describes both autologous transplants (using the patient's own cells) and allogeneic transplants (using donor cells), and lists conditions treated as including amyloidosis, aplastic anaemia, autoimmune diseases such as lupus and multiple sclerosis, sickle cell disease and thalassaemia, immunodeficiencies, leukaemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, myelofibrosis, myeloproliferative neoplasms and testicular cancer.
The programme is described as part of the Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Research Network, a research partnership. No named clinicians are given on the pages reviewed. On insurance, the site states that private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid may provide coverage for blood and marrow transplants, but that some costs may not be fully reimbursed, and that financial coordinators and social workers are available to help patients understand their benefits.
The wider Methodist Healthcare site describes both autologous transplants, using the patient's own stem cells, and allogeneic transplants, using cells from a donor, as part of this programme.
No individual clinicians are named with credentials on the pages reviewed.
The clinic is based at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, as part of the wider Methodist Healthcare hospital system. The site describes it as accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy and part of the Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Research Network.
The site states that private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid may provide coverage for blood and marrow transplants, but that some costs may not be fully reimbursed; financial coordinators and social workers are described as available to help patients understand their benefits. No specific prices are given.
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.