ii need help...and fast....anyone know where is a good place for bone marrow transplant?

Question

My boyfriends dad...is very sick has had cancer for awhile...and he needs a bone marrow transplant...i need to find a hospital that is good for it...btw: i live in california anywhere around los angeles or hollywood would be good...................please please please help me

Answer 1

The oncologist involved in your boyfriend's father's care should refer him to somewhere in your area. I live in NC and refer my patients either to Duke or Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Answer 2

You should ask his primary oncologist for a referral. Is this a recommended treatment for his type of cancer? Not every cancer patient is a candidate for bone marrow or stem cell transplants.

Anyway, if you want to do some research you can check the following websites:

Blood and Marrow Transplant InfoNet
http://www.bmtinfonet.org/

National Bone Marrow Transplant
http://www.nbmtlink.org/

There are four or five different types of bone marrow transplant. My son will probably be undergoing an autologous stem cell transplant (using his own harvested stem cells) at some point, but only if he is 'no evidence of disease'.
We were told that with his type of sarcoma that a stem cell transplant works best if all the cancer is gone first. (He will be going to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Jimmy Fund Pediatric Clinic) for his stem cell transplant.

I forgot to mention several of the places that offer Bone Marrow/Stem Cell transplant:

Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center: BMT
http://bmt.stanford.edu/

University of California, san Francisco
http://www.ucsfhealth.org/adult/medical_services/blood/bmt/index.html

University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer
http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/cancertreat/treatment/bmt/about_the_program.shtml

Duke University
http://bmt.mc.duke.edu/index.htm

BMT Centers
http://www.acor.org/leukemia/bmtctrs2.html#other_bmt

Good luck.

Answer 3

check and see if there is a scripps hospital in LA scripps is really good with everything. His doctor should of suggested someplace to him along with testing any family members to see if they are compatable. You cant just go and get a transplant. You have to have a bone marrow donor that is compatable with you. If he has any brothers that would be his best bet for a match at short notice as long as they have the same mom and dad. IF his doctor hasnt done all this yet I would get him a new doctor. He should of been put on a list from the get go so when a donor came up he could be ready . I live in san diego and there is a scripps in fact a few down here so if there isnt one up there call around down here but really his doctor should be doing that

Answer 4

you're good in that twine blood could be utilized in bone marrow transplants. regardless of if, it introduces greater than a number of issues into the equation. First, this is extremely no longer likely that your toddler could be a experience on your grandmother. making use of twine blood supplies some leeway on the experience, regardless of if it remains no longer likely. or maybe although there is leeway, a mismatch nevertheless has a greater physically powerful threat of rejection or the affected person bobbing up gvhd. 2nd, probability is that your toddler's one unit of twine blood is basically no longer sufficient to assist transplant in an person. One unit of twine blood particularly basically has sufficient stem cells to assist transplant in a small toddler. So, to apply the twine blood, she might ought to bypass to the customary public twine blood economic business enterprise and locate yet another unit that replaced into a precise experience on your toddler's twine blood. additionally, twine blood takes longer to engraft than marrow or peripheral blood stem cells. The longer the transplant takes to engraft, the longer the affected person has 0 immune gadget, and the longer the affected person is with none style of immune gadget, the better opportunities of an infection. the probability is in all probability low, yet its no longer impossible. you need to consult her docs to make certain if she is a candidate for twine blood transplant - so a techniques as i understand they're nevertheless in medical trials for adults. If she is in all probability a candidate for this therapy, you will possibly prefer to privately economic business enterprise the twine blood, and her scientific docs will prefer to take an intensive scientific historic past from you and all that. DONT lie approximately something.

Answer 5

Call your family physican and ask him for a reference to the doctor you need. These doctors know many other doctors and they could probably refer you to one.