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Presbyterian/St. Lukes Medical Center

Colorado Blood Cancer Institute
1719 East 19th Avenue
Denver, CO 80218
Direct phone: (720) 754-4800
Toll-free phone: (877) 268-9300
http://www.bloodcancerinstitute.com/bone-marrow-transplant/index.htm

Program Description:

The Colorado Blood Cancer Institute at Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center is the largest most comprehensive transplant program in the Rocky Mountain Region. We offer allogeneic, autologous, cord blood and haploidential transplantation for all hematologic and malignant disease indications with a variety of innovative treatment protocols.

Contact Information:

If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Pat Wagner, transplant center coordinator, at (720) 754-4860 or by e-mail at patricia.wagner@healthonecares.com.

Program Type:

Adult

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)

Adult -

Scott I. Bearman, Mark W. Brunvand, Tara K. Gregory, Michael Maris, Jeffrey V. Matous, Peter McSweeney, Richard A. Nash

Transplants Performed:

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on:

Adult only

helpExplain Transplant Center HLA Match Requirements

Estimated Search & Transplant Costs

The costs for a transplant vary greatly from center to center and depend on factors such as health insurance, disease type and disease stage of the patient, as well as center-specific billing policies. Examples of costs in the search and transplant include:

  • The amount and geographic location of donors tested
  • Testing needed to confirm a match
  • Processing and collecting of tissue-typing samples
  • Donor workup testing needed
  • Getting the marrow, PBSC or cord blood unit for transplant

For the best understanding of costs of transplant and follow-up for a specific transplant center, contact the center's Financial Representative.

helpExplain Transplant Costs at Different Centers

Financial Services:


Financial services at this center could include:
  • Health insurance information
  • Financial assistance
  • Patient-related resources

Resources for financial information


If you have questions about costs and financial services at this transplant center, you can contact the center's financial representative, Karen Bailey by e-mail at karen.bailey@healthonecares.com or by phone at (720) 754-4882.

Many organizations exist to help patients with lodging, transportation and other transplant-related expenses. Visit the National Marrow Donor Program's Patient Organizations database for more information. Financial assistance resources are also listed on this Web site.

Transplant Experience

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1991 and has been an NMDP transplant center since May 1997.

Transplants Reported

(From Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2011
as reported by the centers
)

      Unrelated or Related Donor

Auto-
logous

(PBSC or marrow)

Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloablative transplants*

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood

Unrelated Donor - Adult 3 84 12 --- 99 28
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Related Donor - Adult 12 53 0 --- 65 13
Related Donor - Pediatric 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Autologous - Adult --- --- --- 300 300 ---
Autologous - Pediatric --- --- --- 0 0 ---
Total (by cell source) 15 137 12 300 464 41

*The total Non-Myeloablative transplants column shows a subset of the total number of transplants by type.

To locate centers that perform cord blood transplants, use the search tool on this site.

The NMDP also has Transplants by Disease Charts available showing the number of NMDP coordinated transplants by disease category at each U.S. transplant center.

helpExplain Transplant Experience

Center-Specific Analysis

This analysis includes ONLY patients who received their FIRST ALLOGENEIC* transplant between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2010 using unrelated or related donors, and who had at least a 100-day follow-up.

  1. This center reported survival status data for 186 patients.
  2. The actual one-year survival of these patients is 69%.
  3. Based on a national average for patients like those transplanted at this center, 95% of the time the one-year survival is expected to be between 58% and 71% for patients at this center.
  4. This center's actual results are similar to the expected range for this center.

*Allogeneic means using cells from a person other than the patient.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes (PDF).

Survival by Patient's Age, Disease Type and Stage

If you do not find your disease in the statistics below, it may be combined with other similar diseases in a category. Please refer to our broad disease categories page for more information.

Additional Information
Further information about this center, including the number and type of transplants performed in each of the last three years, and the support groups offered, may be found in the BMT InfoNet Transplant Center Directory: http://www.bmtinfonet.org/transplantcenters.

BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a nonprofit organization that provides information and emotional support to transplant patients and their families.

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