Comer Children's Hospital

United States

Hospital Mailing Address
Comer Children's Hospital
at the University of Chicago
5721 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
 

(773) 702-1000

http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org/specialties/cancer/stem-cell-transplant/

About Comer Children's Hospital

Comer Children’s Hospital’s pediatric stem cell transplant service at the University of Chicago has extensive experience in stem cell transplants for children from infancy through young adulthood. Stem cell transplantation treats serious illnesses through a process that destroys the patient’s impaired immune system and replaces it with healthy donor stem cells. The new stem cells can restore the blood-forming cells found in bone marrow, thus creating a new immune system for the patients.

The University of Chicago was the first hospital in the area to offer a pediatric bone marrow transplant program over 20 years ago. Experience, innovations, and scientific study continue to add applications for this treatment and to the steadily improve survival rates.

Comer Children’s Hospital experts are nationally recognized leaders in the development of novel uses for this life-saving treatment. For instance, they are now offering a new technique that refines blood stem cell grafts donated by parents, making them suitable donors for their own children.

The pediatric stem cell transplant program works jointly with the adult stem cell transplant program at the University of Chicago. They are national leaders in transplant for lymphoma, leukemia, and non-malignant diseases. The shared programs perform over 170 transplants yearly.