The haematology service of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia's largest public hospital, which lists bone marrow transplantation among its critical services.
The Royal Adelaide Hospital is South Australia's largest public hospital and its primary trauma centre. Its own description of itself lists complex cancers and bone marrow transplants among the critical services it provides, alongside craniomaxillofacial surgery, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic services, renal transplantation, hyperbaric medicine and spinal and brain injury rehabilitation.
The hospital's haematology page divides the department into disease streams and names an Associate Professor Peter Bardy as bone marrow transplant lead within the myeloid stream, which the page describes as covering the acute leukaemias and myeloproliferative neoplasms. Outpatient haematology is described as being on Level 3E of the hospital.
Beyond that, the hospital publishes very little about the transplant service itself. Its cancer services page describes medical oncology, haematology and radiation oncology and says haematology provides chemotherapy, supportive care and other medications including targeted therapies, but it does not mention transplantation at all. There is no page setting out what a transplant involves, how patients are referred to it, whether donor as well as own-cell transplants are performed, or how many are done.
Readers should understand that this is haematopoietic - blood-forming - stem cell transplantation given as part of treatment for blood cancers, a long-established hospital procedure, and not the kind of injected cell treatment sold by private regenerative medicine clinics. Because the hospital publishes so little detail, anyone seeking this treatment would need to go through their own doctor for a referral and ask the service directly.
The haematology and about pages name the following.
The hospital states that it performs bone marrow transplants and names a transplant lead clinician, but publishes no description of the procedure or of where the cells come from.
The haematology page names stream leads; one is identified as the transplant lead.
The hospital describes itself as covering the equivalent of three city blocks over nine levels, on a 3.8 hectare site of which 1.6 hectares is green space, and as South Australia's super-site for major emergencies. Haematology outpatients are seen on Level 3E. The pages retrieved give a general telephone number of 7074 0000 but no street address, no accreditation details for the transplant programme and no list of languages spoken.
The site says nothing about cost. This is a South Australian public hospital service 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.