FeedsChoosing a Transplant Center
If you need a bone marrow or cord blood transplant and do not have a matching donor in your family, your doctor can search for an adult donor or cord blood unit for you on the Be The Match Registry®, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP).
There are more than 166 NMDP transplant centers in the United States where you may be able to receive a transplant from an unrelated donor or cord blood unit on the Be The Match Registry. We provide detailed information to help you and your doctors choose the transplant center that is best for you — see U.S. NMDP transplant centers.
There are also many international NMDP transplant centers.
Information to help you with your choice
- Things to think about when choosing a transplant center
- How the statistics can help you understand the differences between transplant centers
- The HLA matching level required at different centers
- Charts showing the number of transplants each U.S. NMDP transplant center has done (by disease category)
- Donor search and other pre-transplant costs at different centers
- Financial information, such as tips for learning about your health care coverage
- A glossary of words related to bone marrow and cord blood transplants
- Features of NMDP transplant centers that help ensure you receive quality treatment
- Things to think about before changing transplant centers
Other transplant center listings
You can learn more about NMDP transplant centers as well as other centers that do transplants using cells from a related donor or cells collected from the patient (autologous transplants) in the BMT InfoNet Transplant Center Directory: http://www.bmtinfonet.org/centers.BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a nonprofit organization that provides information and emotional support to transplant patients and their families.
