

The UCSF Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Clinic provides follow-up care for returning bone marrow transplant patients who have undergone treatment for cancer, such as leukemia and lymphoma as well as diseases of the immune system at the hospital.
BMT patients are seen on Wednesday mornings at the Pediatric Treatment Center which is a specially designed area where outpatient chemotherapy infusions and procedures are performed in a comfortable environment. The center is staffed by nurses trained in administering chemotherapy and hematological products. There are several private rooms, where procedures such as spinal taps and blood draws are performed, and a larger area with four reclining infusion chairs. Each room has a TV and there is a play area stocked with a variety of books, toys and videos.
Our Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, established in 1982, has the best overall patient survival rates in the nation for pediatric bone marrow transplants, according to a recent independent review of 156 programs nationwide. The program was ranked No. 1 among 14 "over performers" for patient survival by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR). The review was based on the number of transplants performed annually, adjusted for risk, and then the chance for survival one year after transplant was estimated.
Nationwide, the estimated chance of survival after one year was 63.4 percent, compared with the UCSF Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program survival rate of 87.6 percent. Fourteen or 9 percent of the centers were considered "over performers."
BMT Clinic at the Pediatric Treatment Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Suite A101
San Francisco, CA 94143-0134
Phone: (415) 353-2584
Fax: (415) 353-2600
Hours: Wednesday mornings 9 a.m. – noon
Last updated January 25, 2012
