Hackensack University Medical Center
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Transplant Summary
Overview
The adult division at the John Theurer Cancer Center and the pediatric program at the Joseph M Sanzari Children's Hospital offers their patients comprehensive, compassionate, and cutting edge stem cell therapy. The team at Hackensack University Medical Center has extensive experience in autologous, allogeneic, matched, mismatched, haploidentical and cord blood transplant. Both programs offer immune effector cell therapy.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1993 and has been an NMDP transplant center since May 1996.
Attending physicians
Adult - Christina Cho, Michele Donato, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Sukhdeep Kaur, Hyung Suh, David Vesole
Pediatric - Burton Appel, Christine Camacho Bydume, Alfred Gillio, Barbara Spitzer, Johannes ZakrzwwskiTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cordCord blood transplants
Adult and pediatricOther programs and services
Hackensack Meridian Health, home to the Joseph Sanzari Children's Hospital and the John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) offers stem cell transplant patients a wide range of resources and personalized patient care. Patient and caregiver support groups led by certified psychosocial professionals are available on both the inpatient and outpatient units. Family members of pediatric patients have access to apartments at the Audrey Hepburn Children's House and are provided one caregiver meal per day when their child is inpatient. Our educational liaison is available to assist the family with school related issues. In addition the Cure and Beyond Program offers transplant survivors further evaluation, treatment and counseling for medical and psychosocial issues as they adjust to life post-transplant.
At the JTCC, patients have access to outpatient apartments and discounted rates at local hotels. There are numerous activities such as Yoga, Cardio and Weight Resistance offered throughout the week. The cooking studio offers lessons and demonstrations featuring delicious nutritious recipes. To promote recovery and healing, a creative art workshop studio and tranquility room for reflection and mediation are available. Patients have access to a consumer health librarian that can access credible sources on the internet. For those patients that may require further treatment we are the largest photopheresis center in the area.Patient 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 368 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 73.1%.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 70% and 78.3%.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
720
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow14PBSC79Cord blood0Total93Unrelated donorMarrow4PBSC146Cord blood0Total150Total allogeneicMarrow18PBSC225Cord blood0Total243AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 477PBSC—Cord blood—Total477Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 720PBSC—Cord blood0Total720Total pediatric transplants
53
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow17PBSC7Cord blood0Total24Unrelated donorMarrow9PBSC4Cord blood6Total19Total allogeneicMarrow26PBSC11Cord blood6Total43AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 10PBSC—Cord blood—Total10Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 47PBSC—Cord blood6Total53All 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 0-182419-442845-644465+21Total117Unrelated 0-181919-442145-646365+66Total169Autologous 0-181019-443445-6424865+195Total487Total 0-185319-448345-6435565+282Total773Treatments 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 coordinatorBarbara Adler-BrecherPhone: (914) 263-8861If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center’s direct phone number.NMDP 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.