 Blood and Marrow
Transplant (BMT) Team
Ireland's Blood and Marrow
Transplant Program is a designated allogeneic and autologous
bone marrow transplant center for the Eastern Cooperative
Oncology Group, and a donor center, testing center and
transplant center for the National Marrow Donor Program.
Since University Hospitals
Ireland Cancer Center established its Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT)
Program in 1976, Ireland physicians have performed well over
1,000 transplants for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, breast
cancer and other solid tumors.
Physicians at Ireland's Blood
and Marrow Transplant Program were among the first in the U.S. to
perform autologous transplants using peripheral blood stem
cells. Since 1994, they have performed allogeneic transplants
using peripheral blood stem cells obtained from normal donor
rather than bone marrow.
Since 1995, the Ireland Cancer
Center has made a significant commitment to further the use of
both related and unrelated umbilical cord blood in
transplantation for patients with leukemia, lymphoma and severe
aplastic anemia. A procedure already offered to children,
University Hospitals is among the first centers in the United
States to also offer cord blood transplantation to adults.
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Oncology Team Members
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Transplant Team Members
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