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Geisinger Medical Center

Location

Geisinger Medical Center
100 N. Academy Avenue
Danville, PA 17822-2001
Direct phone: (570) 271-6211

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 3
  • PBSC: 33
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 53
Performs adult transplants

Overview

Geisinger Medical Center is an NCI designated center & designated NCCCP hospital which has been performing sibling matched allogeneic transplants since April 2008. We are also now performing Matched Unrelated Allogeneic and Haploid Transplants.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2008. This center is not a member of the NMDP/Be The Match transplant center network.

Attending physicians

Adult - Joseph Lynch, Joseph Vadakara

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC only

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

Local housing at the House of Care. Ronald McDonald housing also available.

About the center

Overview

Geisinger Medical Center is an NCI designated center & designated NCCCP hospital which has been performing sibling matched allogeneic transplants since April 2008. We are also now performing Matched Unrelated Allogeneic and Haploid Transplants.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2008. This center is not a member of the NMDP/Be The Match transplant center network.

Attending physicians

Adult - Joseph Lynch, Joseph Vadakara

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC only

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

Local housing at the House of Care. Ronald McDonald housing also available.

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 57 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 71.9%.

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 58.6% and 81.2%.

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


89

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

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 3 3 0 6
Unrelated donor 0 30 0 30
Total allogeneic 3 33 0 36
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
53
-- 53
Total combined
89 0 89

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 0 1 3 2 6
Unrelated 0 7 11 12 30
Autologous 0 1 31 21 53
Total 0 9 45 35 89

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:
Sherry Brosius
(570) 271-6045
Email: slbrosius@geisinger.edu

Financial representative:
Janice Taylor
(570) 214-4406
Email: jtaylor6@geisinger.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

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