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Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
825 Eastlake Avenue E., E2-102
P.O. Box 19023
 Seattle, WA 98109-1023
 Direct phone: (206) 288-1024
 Toll-free phone: (800) 804-8824
 http://www.seattlecca.org

Program Description:

 The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) has done PBSC/marrow/cord blood transplants since 1970. As our program has grown, our goals have always remained the same: To provide outstanding patient care and develop methods to further improve the outcomes of therapy.

Contact Information:

 If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Christy Satterlee, transplant center coordinator, at (206) 288-2165 or by e-mail at csatterl@seattlecca.org.

Program Type:

 Adult and Pediatric

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)

Adult -

Fredrick Appelbaum, Scott Baker, Merav Bar, Antonio Bedalov, William Bensinger, Elizabeth Budde, Aude Chaupis, Bruce Clurman, Joachim Deeg, Kristine Doney, Matthew Fero, Mary Flowers, George Georges, Ajay Gopal, Damian Green, Boglarka Gyurkocza, John Hansen, Leona Holmberg, Hans-Peter Kiem, Michael Linenberger, David Maloney, Paul Martin, Suzanne McGoldrick, Marco Mielcarek, Richard Nash, Paul O'Donnell, John Pagel, Effie Petersdorf, Oliver Press, Salit Rachel, Jerald Radich, Aravind Ramakrishnan, Andrew Rezvani, Stanley Riddell, Steve Rosinski, Brenda Sandmaier, Bart Scott, Mohammed Sorror, F. Marc Stewart, Derek Stirewalt, Rainer Storb, Brian Till, Cameron Turtle, Houston Warren, Robert Witherspoon

Pediatric -

Robert Andrews, Marie Bleakely, Lauri Burroughs, Paul Carpenter, Colleen Delaney, Stephanie Lee, Soheil Meshinchi, Ann Woolfrey

Transplants Performed:

 Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on:

 Adult and pediatric

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, Debbie Stenhjem by e-mail at dstenhje@seattlecca.org or by phone at (206) 288-1101.

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 1969 and has been an NMDP transplant center since February 1989.

Transplants Reported

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

      Unrelated or Related Donor

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logous

(PBSC or marrow)

Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloablative transplants*

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood
Unrelated Donor - Adult 54 192 45 --- 291 111
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 26 6 21 --- 53 5
Related Donor - Adult 32 132 0 --- 164 78
Related Donor - Pediatric 23 3 0 --- 26 4
Autologous - Adult --- --- --- 446 446 ---
Autologous - Pediatric --- --- --- 17 17 ---
Total (by cell source) 135 333 66 463 997 198

*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 753 patients.
  2. The actual one-year survival of these patients is 68%.
  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 62% and 68% 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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