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Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Bone Marrow Transplant Service offers specialized expertise and unequaled experience gained from providing transplants for thousands of children, teens, and young adults with cancer.

The Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service has two primary goals:

  • To perform bone marrow transplants successfully, and with a reduced risk of graft-versus-host disease using T-cell depletion.
  • To offer bone marrow transplantation in the absence of an HLA-matched sibling, by using T-cell depleted bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells donated by related HLA-mismatched family members.

Transplants for Adults

See Blood & Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation for information about our transplant program for adults.

  • Our Experience
    Since 1973 -- when the first bone marrow transplant was performed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering -- our doctors have performed more than 1,700 allogeneic and 1,500 autologous bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplants. These pages describe our program for pediatric patients.
  • Our Team of Experts
    Our pediatric transplant specialists, their education, training, board certifications, current publications, and specific areas of expertise.
  • Overview
    Blood stem cell transplantation may help cure cancers such as leukemia, Hodgkin's disease and other lymphomas. Blood stem cell transplants allow physicians to replace a patient's diseased or damaged marrow with healthy blood-forming cells.
  • Innovative Treatments
    During the first twenty years of our program's existence, we achieved many milestones in the field of transplantation. Our priorities for the next five years are to build on developments in both the laboratory and the clinic so that every patient who comes to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for a blood stem cell transplantation procedure leaves a success story.
  • Questions & Answers
    What is bone marrow? Why are marrow transplants used? What role does chemotherapy or radiation therapy play in the transplant process? Answers to these and other questions.
Last Updated: Aug. 21, 2006
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