Medical University of South Carolina
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Transplant Summary
Overview
The Blood & Marrow Transplant Program at the Medical University of South Carolina provides comprehensive care in a continuously evolving, evidence based, multi-disciplinary setting, to both adult and pediatric patients through ablative and non-myeloablative, inpatient and outpatient transplantation, using cord blood, peripheral blood, or bone marrow as the source of stem cells and Immune Effector Cell therapy to patients as needed. Primary nurse coordinators follow the patient from evaluation through post-transplant care providing the patient, family, related and unrelated donors, referring physicians, and insurance carriers a primary contact with intimate knowledge of the patient and their unique circumstances. The program has been successfully FACT accredited since June 2003.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1987 and has been an NMDP transplant center since September 1991.
Attending physicians
Adult - Jonathan Alexander, Katherine Antel, Dominick Anthony, Praneeth Baratam, Joseph Caveney, Alexander Coltoff, Kim Green, Brian Hess
Pediatric - Michelle Hudspeth, Jennifer JaroscakTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cordCord blood transplants
Adult and pediatricOther programs and services
The MUSC BMT team is a combined adult and pediatric bone marrow transplant program, caring for both inpatient and outpatient adult and pediatric BMT patients, located in a single hospital setting. Our patients are treated, however, across multiple entities within the University by a multi-disciplinary team including BMT coordinators and APPs, a donor coordinator, clinical trial coordinators, financial coordinator, social worker and child life specialists, nutritionists, behavioral specialists, quality coordinator, research and statistical analysts, cryopreservation specialists, hemapheresis staff, pharmacists, and infection control specialists. This extensive team meets monthly as a group, and quarterly as individual programs, with our quality specialists to continuously review outcomes, endpoint data, patient safety, infection control, and opportunities for continuous improvement. MUSC offers discounted housing within the city limits as well as access to our Ronald McDonald House and Hope Lodge, both located directly across the street from the hospital. MUSC opened a new women and children's hospital, the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital, in 2020. An entire floor of the new facility is dedicated to children's cancer and blood disorders.Patient survival information for this center
This center's actual 1-year survival results are above 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 166 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 78.9%.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 64.5% and 77.5%.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
277
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow0PBSC31Cord blood0Total31Unrelated donorMarrow3PBSC70Cord blood0Total73Total allogeneicMarrow3PBSC101Cord blood0Total104AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 173PBSC—Cord blood—Total173Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 277PBSC—Cord blood0Total277Total pediatric transplants
47
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow9PBSC2Cord blood0Total11Unrelated donorMarrow11PBSC4Cord blood2Total17Total allogeneicMarrow20PBSC6Cord blood2Total28AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 19PBSC—Cord blood—Total19Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 45PBSC—Cord blood2Total47All 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 0-181119-441045-641065+11Total42Unrelated 0-181719-441545-642565+33Total90Autologous 0-181919-441845-648265+73Total192Total 0-184719-444345-6411765+117Total324Treatments 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
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.