The allogeneic (donor) stem cell transplant clinic of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, part of University Health Network.
The Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Clinic at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is part of University Health Network in Toronto. The clinic page describes the service as specialising in allogeneic blood and marrow transplants, and states that in this form of transplant stem cells are collected from a living donor rather than from the patient.
According to the page, the donor cells are given after high-dose chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Patients typically stay in hospital for about four weeks after the transplant. The programme is identified on University Health Network's site as the Hans Messner Allogeneic Transplant Program, named after the transplant physician Dr Hans Messner.
The clinic runs several separate sessions. The page gives new patient consultations on Tuesday to Thursday afternoons, a post-transplant clinic on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, and a long-term follow-up clinic on Monday afternoons.
The conditions named are both cancerous and non-cancerous. The blood cancers listed are leukaemia, lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndrome and myelofibrosis. The non-cancerous conditions listed are aplastic anaemia, bone marrow failure syndromes and sickle cell disease. The page gives telephone and email contacts for new patients and for transplant coordinators. It does not name the treating physicians individually and says nothing about cost.
The clinic page names both blood cancers and non-cancerous blood disorders among the conditions it treats.
The site states that this clinic carries out allogeneic transplants, in which the stem cells are collected from a living donor and not from the patient.
The clinic page refers to the Hans Messner Allogeneic Transplant Program but does not list the treating physicians by name.
The clinic is on the second floor of the Philip S. Orsino Hematology Centre at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, part of University Health Network. The page sets out separate clinic sessions for new consultations, post-transplant care and long-term follow-up, and gives a new-patient telephone line and two email addresses for administration and for transplant coordinators. It states that patients usually remain in hospital for around four weeks after transplant.
The page says nothing about cost. It is part of Ontario's publicly funded hospital system, but the site itself makes no statement about fees.
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.