The Tasmanian statewide bone marrow transplant service at the Royal Hobart Hospital, where the health department says autologous stem cell transplants are performed.
The Tasmanian Department of Health describes a statewide bone marrow transplant service centred on the Royal Hobart Hospital. According to its page, autologous transplants - those using the patient's own stem cells - are performed at the Royal Hobart Hospital, either with an inpatient admission or in the day unit.
Allogeneic transplants, where the cells come from a donor, are not performed in Tasmania. The department states that patients needing one travel interstate, most often to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, with support from the Tasmanian team. Stem cell collection for the service happens in the haematology oncology day unit at either the Royal Hobart Hospital or the Launceston General Hospital, which is covered by a separate record in this directory.
The conditions named on the page are leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and certain autoimmune diseases. This is haematopoietic, or blood-forming, stem cell transplantation given as part of cancer and blood-disorder treatment - a long-established hospital procedure that should not be confused with the injected cell treatments sold by private regenerative medicine clinics.
The department gives telephone numbers rather than addresses: a statewide bone marrow transplant coordinator on 6166 8078 and the Royal Hobart Hospital on 6166 8308. No individual clinicians are named, the page says nothing about cost, and patients reach the service by referral through their own doctor.
The statewide service page names the following.
The department describes autologous transplantation of the patient's own blood-forming stem cells, collected in the haematology oncology day unit and returned at the hospital.
The page names no individual clinicians, only a statewide bone marrow transplant coordinator.
The department's page describes the Royal Hobart Hospital as the site of Tasmania's autologous transplant programme, with the procedure carried out either during an inpatient admission or in the day unit, and with stem cell collection done in the haematology oncology day unit. The hospital's own services page lists haematology and oncology clinical trials, a cancer support centre, medical imaging, pathology and pharmacy among its departments. Neither page gives a street address, accreditation details or a list of languages; only telephone numbers are published.
The page says nothing about cost. It describes a Tasmanian public health 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.