A provincial hospital-based blood and marrow transplant programme in Vancouver treating leukaemia and other blood cancers with stem cell transplantation.
The Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program of British Columbia is a hospital-based programme in Vancouver, Canada. According to its website, it cares for people with leukaemia and other blood malignancies and carries out blood and marrow transplantation. It is not a private regenerative medicine clinic; it is a publicly organised transplant service.
The site states that treatment is delivered on the Vancouver General Hospital campus. The inpatient unit is given as the Jim Pattison Pavilion, Towers 15 and 16, at 899 West 12th Avenue, and the outpatient daycare unit as the Krall Centre on the sixth floor of the Blackmore Pavilion at 855 West 12th Avenue.
The programme's stem cell and marrow donor pages describe two ways of collecting blood-forming stem cells. According to the site, peripheral blood stem cell collection is the approach it prefers, with bone marrow harvest used as an alternative. The site describes stem cells as immature cells that can develop into all of the different types of blood cell.
The website does not name individual physicians on the pages read, and gives no information about cost. Contact is instead organised by unit, with separate telephone numbers listed for the haematology apheresis unit, the donor physician, the apheresis physician and the transplant navigators.
The site names the following conditions as reasons for referral to the programme.
The site describes haematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cell transplantation as the core treatment the programme provides.
The pages read do not name individual clinicians; the site lists contact numbers for the donor physician and apheresis physician by role rather than by name.
According to the site, the programme runs both an inpatient transplant unit and an outpatient daycare unit on the Vancouver General Hospital campus. The inpatient unit occupies Towers 15 and 16 of the Jim Pattison Pavilion, and outpatient care is given at the Krall Centre on the sixth floor of the Blackmore Pavilion, a short distance away on the same street.
The site gives no information about the cost of treatment.
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.