Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant
Welcome to the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program of Mayo Clinic, Nemours Children’s Clinic, and Wolfson Children’s Hospital in sunny Jacksonville, Florida.
Our program is a unique, collaborative effort between three renowned organizations. This allows for greater collaboration in physician and staff expertise, research and clinical protocols, which ensures the best possible care for all patients. Mayo Clinic maintains the program's adult transplant unit and cryopreservation laboratory, Nemours Children’s Clinic provides pre-transplant and post transplant care for children, and Wolfson Children's Hospital maintains the pediatric inpatient transplant unit.
Previously known as a bone marrow or stem cell transplant, a hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplant replaces defective or damaged cells in patients whose normal blood cells are not working or have been crowded out by cancerous cells. Transplants can also be used to treat hereditary disorders of the immune system and red blood cell production.
Our pediatric transplantation program is the site of great promise for treatment of a number of childhood diseases including, but not limited to the following:
- Bone marrow failure syndromes
- Brain tumors
- Ewing’s sarcoma
- Hodgkins disease
- Leukemia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Neuroblastoma
- Non-Hodgkins lymphoma
- Sickle cell anemia
- Solid tumors
A transplant is a team effort, with the patient and their primary caregiver being the most important members of the team. Our hospital and clinic team members include physicians, a transplant coordinator, nurses, social workers, child life specialists, psychologists, pharmacists, physical therapists, laboratory staff, dietitians, chaplains and volunteers who all work together to make each transplant successful.
Our transplant program has been awarded national accreditation by the Foundation for Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) and is recognized by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) as an affiliated center for matched unrelated donor transplants.
