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UCSF Medical Center

Location

UCSF Medical Center
Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
550 16th Street, Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0434
Direct phone: (415) 476-2188

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 23
  • PBSC: 207
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 372
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

UCSF is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation and is an active center for research and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Our adult program utilizes myeloablative and non-myeloablative approaches for patients with leukemia, myelodysplasia, lymphoma, myeloma and selected solid tumors. The adult program uses the following hematopoietic cell sources: matched related, matched unrelated, haploidentical related, and umbilical cord blood. Our pediatric program treats children with hematologic cancers, brain tumors, neuroblastoma, genetic diseases and immunodeficiency disorders, and specializes in haploidentical related donor transplants.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1982 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 1991.

Attending physicians

Adult - Weiyun Ai, Charalambos Andreadis, Shagun Arora, Alfred Chung, Lloyd Damon, Neil Dunavin, Karin Gaensler, Lawry Kaplan, Aaron Logan, Thomas G Martin, Rebecca Olin, Peter Sayre, Madhav Seshadri, Nina Shah, Catherine Smith, Michael Spinner, Jeffrey Wolf

Pediatric - Serine Avagyan, Julia Chu, Christopher Dvorak, Michelle Hermiston, Christine Higham, James Huang, Sandhya Kharbanda, Philip Paurstein, Gabriel Salinas-Cisneros, Kristin Shimano, William Temple, Lena Winestone

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Family House for pediatric patients living 50 miles from the Medical Center. For adults, we currently offer discount housing and Koz Hospitality House for patients and their caregivers after recovering from transplant.

About the center

Overview

UCSF is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation and is an active center for research and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Our adult program utilizes myeloablative and non-myeloablative approaches for patients with leukemia, myelodysplasia, lymphoma, myeloma and selected solid tumors. The adult program uses the following hematopoietic cell sources: matched related, matched unrelated, haploidentical related, and umbilical cord blood. Our pediatric program treats children with hematologic cancers, brain tumors, neuroblastoma, genetic diseases and immunodeficiency disorders, and specializes in haploidentical related donor transplants.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1982 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 1991.

Attending physicians

Adult - Weiyun Ai, Charalambos Andreadis, Shagun Arora, Alfred Chung, Lloyd Damon, Neil Dunavin, Karin Gaensler, Lawry Kaplan, Aaron Logan, Thomas G Martin, Rebecca Olin, Peter Sayre, Madhav Seshadri, Nina Shah, Catherine Smith, Michael Spinner, Jeffrey Wolf

Pediatric - Serine Avagyan, Julia Chu, Christopher Dvorak, Michelle Hermiston, Christine Higham, James Huang, Sandhya Kharbanda, Philip Paurstein, Gabriel Salinas-Cisneros, Kristin Shimano, William Temple, Lena Winestone

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Family House for pediatric patients living 50 miles from the Medical Center. For adults, we currently offer discount housing and Koz Hospitality House for patients and their caregivers after recovering from transplant.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

University of California - San Francisco - Adults

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 204 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 78.2%.

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 71.6% and 82.8%.

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 at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

University of California - San Francisco - Pediatrics

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 104 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 88.5%.

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 81.7% and 94.0%.

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 at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Number of adult transplants

Total adult transplants


467

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 5 87 0 92
Unrelated donor 5 74 0 79
Total allogeneic 10 161 0 171
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
296
-- 296
Total combined
467 0 467

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


135

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 10 37 0 47
Unrelated donor 3 9 0 12
Total allogeneic 13 46 0 59
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
76
-- 76
Total combined
135 0 135

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 39 41 38 20 138
Unrelated 12 15 29 35 91
Autologous 74 43 156 99 372
Total 125 99 223 154 601

Treatments 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 for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Betty Lau
(415) 514-6929
Email: betty.lau2@ucsf.edu

Financial representative:
Sze-Wan Mak
(415) 353-1908
Email: sze-wan.mak@ucf.edu

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

Survivorship program

This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.
Please select the program you are interested in.