The bone marrow and stem cell transplant service of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Parkville, Melbourne, run jointly with the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is a Victorian public cancer hospital in Parkville, Melbourne. Its site describes bone marrow and stem cell transplantation as one of its haematological treatments, delivered as an integrated service with the Royal Melbourne Hospital next door - a separate record in this directory covers the Royal Melbourne side of the same arrangement.
According to the site, the process involves collecting healthy stem cells from the patient or from a donor and returning them after chemotherapy or radiotherapy so that the blood and immune system can rebuild. In an autologous transplant the patient's own cells are collected while the disease is in remission and given back after high-dose treatment; the site notes that most people have one autologous transplant, although some have two or more. In an allogeneic transplant the cells come from a compatible donor, preferably a sibling, and otherwise from another family member or a matched volunteer unrelated donor.
The site says cells for both kinds of transplant are usually collected as an outpatient procedure by apheresis, and that the cells are then given into a vein much like a blood transfusion. The conditions it names are acute and chronic leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, aplastic anaemia and some immune system disorders. Its separate patient information also covers preventing infection in hospital and at home after a transplant.
This is haematopoietic - blood-forming - stem cell transplantation given as part of cancer treatment, and it should not be confused with the injected cell treatments offered by private regenerative medicine clinics. The transplant pages name no individual clinicians, give no street address and say nothing about cost; Peter Mac's about and contact pages could not be retrieved when this record was made, so those details should be confirmed with the hospital.
The transplant pages name the following.
The site describes transplantation of blood-forming stem cells, collected from the patient or from a matched donor and given back into a vein after high-dose chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
The transplant pages name no individual clinicians.
The site describes a service split across the Parkville medical precinct rather than a single unit. Peter Mac provides the autologous transplant and myeloma work, while allogeneic transplantation is carried out on ward 7B at the neighbouring Royal Melbourne Hospital, with the two hospitals running clinical haematology as an integrated service. Collection is described as an outpatient apheresis procedure. Peter Mac's about and contact pages returned errors when this record was made, so no street address, accreditation detail or list of languages could be taken from the site; a switchboard number of 03 8559 5000 appears on another page.
The pages retrieved say nothing about cost. This is a Victorian public cancer hospital, 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.