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CHOC Children's

Location

CHOC Children's
Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
1201 W La Veta Ave.
Orange, CA 92868-8702
Direct phone: (714) 509-8702
Toll-free: (800) 992-2462

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 24
  • PBSC: 8
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 20
Performs pediatric transplants

Overview

Founded in 1986, the BMT Program at CHOC Children's offers a comprehensive range of pediatric BMT services for a wide variety of diagnoses and utilizes myeloablative and reduced intensity regimens. CHOC is a FACT-accredited, COG Phase 1, and has COE designation for several insurance carriers. Other Programs and Services: Special arrangements with Ronald McDonald housing or local hotels, AYA Program Type: Pediatric.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1986 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since December 1992.

Attending physicians

Adult - David Buchbinder, Rishikesh Chavan, Van Huynh, Ivan Kirov, Diane Nugent, Geetha Puthenveetil, Elyssa Rubin, Amit Soni, Lilibeth Torno

Pediatric - David Buchbinder, Rishikesh Chavan, Van Huynh, Ivan Kirov, Diane Nugent, Geetha Puthenveetil, Elyssa Rubin, Amit Soni, Lilibeth Torno

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Special arrangements with Ronald McDonald housing or local hotels, AYA, CAR-T cells.

About the center

Overview

Founded in 1986, the BMT Program at CHOC Children's offers a comprehensive range of pediatric BMT services for a wide variety of diagnoses and utilizes myeloablative and reduced intensity regimens. CHOC is a FACT-accredited, COG Phase 1, and has COE designation for several insurance carriers. Other Programs and Services: Special arrangements with Ronald McDonald housing or local hotels, AYA Program Type: Pediatric.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1986 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since December 1992.

Attending physicians

Adult - David Buchbinder, Rishikesh Chavan, Van Huynh, Ivan Kirov, Diane Nugent, Geetha Puthenveetil, Elyssa Rubin, Amit Soni, Lilibeth Torno

Pediatric - David Buchbinder, Rishikesh Chavan, Van Huynh, Ivan Kirov, Diane Nugent, Geetha Puthenveetil, Elyssa Rubin, Amit Soni, Lilibeth Torno

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Special arrangements with Ronald McDonald housing or local hotels, AYA, CAR-T cells.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

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 43 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 83.4%.

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 78.1% and 97.1%.

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.

Total transplants

Total transplants


52

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 21 8 0 29
Unrelated donor 3 0 0 3
Total allogeneic 24 8 0 32
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
20
-- 20
Total combined
52 0 52

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 23 2 0 0 25
Unrelated 3 0 0 0 3
Autologous 19 1 0 0 20
Total 45 3 0 0 48

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:
Monika Benson
(714) 509-8305
Email: mbenson@choc.org

Financial representative:
Margie Fombona
(714) 509-8444
Email: mfombona@choc.org

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

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