Stem Cell Transplant Program

A multidisciplinary team approach is used in patient care. It is designed to provide patients with the most effective care possible. 

We strive to provide individual attention to our patients by treating the person as a whole and not just the cancer .

More than 600 bone marrow and peripheral stem cell transplants have been performed to date for a range of diseases including:

• Hodgkin’s disease
• Non-Hodgkin’s disease
• Multiple Myeloma
• Leukemia

During a patient’s treatment period, he/she may receive their care at either INOVA Fairfax Hospital or in our outpatient facility.  In the outpatient facility patients can receive the individual attention needed with the comfort of going home at night.  This facility is designed to operate like a hospital.  Patients can receive high dose chemotherapy, intravenous antibiotics, blood products and more, whatever may be needed prior to, during and after their transplant.

If a patient requires hospitalization, INOVA Fairfax Hospital has private hepa-filtered rooms designed to provide optimum protection from infections for the severely immunocompromised patient, such as an allogeneic transplant patient. 

The nursing staff, pharmacy and laboratory in both the outpatient facility and the hospital all have years of experience in the field of transplantation.

We have built a collaborative relationship with Life with Cancer to provide outpatient on-site psychosocial support and support groups.  This is in addition to traditional inpatient Life with Cancer programs and psychosocial intervention.

• BMT/Stem Cell Support Group  -  meets every other month
  Next meeting: Thursday, May 26
  12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
  Fairfax-Northern Virginia Hematology / Oncology
  8503 Arlington Blvd., # 320, Fairfax, VA
  This monthly group meeting is open to past, current, and upcoming Bone
  Marrow Transplant and /or Stem Cell Transplant patients and
  caregivers.
  Facilitated by an oncology counselor.

Please call Carolyn Smith at 703-208-9263 if you are interested

Our clinical transplant program, cell collection facility and cell processing facility is accredited by The Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) in May 2004. 

We also are an affiliate transplant center and collection site for unrelated bone marrow transplants with the National Marrow Donor Program ( NMDP ).

If you would like to make an appointment, or if you know someone who would benefit from our services please call 703-208-9263.

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