Tufts Medical Center
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Transplant Summary
Overview
Founded in 1987 and FACT accredited since 2000, our BMT program provides clinical excellence and individualized compassionate care to both adults and teenagers. We offer a comprehensive range of services including matched and mismatched related and unrelated donor and umbilical cord blood transplants with myeloablative and reduced intensity conditioning regimens. The adult program has expertise in treating the older and high risk patient. Housing is available at the Neely House, a beautiful "home away from home" located within the hospital campus.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1987 and has been an NMDP transplant center since June 1995.
Attending physicians
Adult - Parva Bhatt, Yun Choi, Raymond Comenzo, Andreas KleinTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cordCord blood transplants
Adult onlyOther programs and services
Discounted housing at Neely House
Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program
Adult Survivorship Cancer ProgramPatient survival information for this center
This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center*.The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:- Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2020, 2021, 2022 and
- Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
- Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis
For this center, we have survival information for 21 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 71.4%.Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 55.4% and 91%.For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report (Opens in a new tab) at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.
The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.
Total adult transplants
52
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow0PBSC6Cord blood0Total6Unrelated donorMarrow0PBSC10Cord blood0Total10Total allogeneicMarrow0PBSC16Cord blood0Total16AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 36PBSC—Cord blood—Total36Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 52PBSC—Cord blood0Total52All Diseases
Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)
0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total Related 0-18019-44045-64665+0Total6Unrelated 0-18019-44345-64265+5Total10Autologous 0-18019-44145-642165+14Total36Total 0-18019-44445-642965+19Total52Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.
Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.
More information about transplants can be found:
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab) report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
- List of diseases
Transplant center resources
Transplant center coordinatorDenise LariveePhone: (617) 636-1391Financial representativeChristine StunzenasPhone: (617) 636-4901NMDP patient navigators
Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.
- Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743
- Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410. (Long distance or international charges may apply.)
Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org
More resources
- Choosing a transplant center
- Preparing for transplant
- Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
- Support and resources (including non-English materials)
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab) at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.
Please select the program you are interested in.