Patients who come to Duke Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program have frequently exhausted all of their other treatment options. They generally have a life expectancy of less than one year without a transplant.

Patients are usually seen within one to two weeks of their referral, despite a lengthy wait list, if it is determined that such speed is necessary.

If transplantation is determined to be the patient’s best option, donors can be identified within a week or two in most cases.

Diseases treated by the Duke Pediatric BMT Program include:

• Acute leukemias (ALL, AML, ANLL, secondary AML)
• Chronic leukemias (CML, JCML, JMML)
• Myelodysplastic syndromes
• Lymphoma (Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas)
• Brain tumors
• Neuroblastoma and other solid tumors
• Immunodeficiency syndromes
• Histiocytic syndromes
• Platelet disorders
• Bone marrow failure disorders
• Inborn errors of metabolism
• Hemoglobinopathies like sickle cell anemia and thalassemia
• Refractory autoimmune diseases

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Driscoll, Timothy
• Kurtzberg, Joanne
• Martin, Paul L.
• Parikh, Suhag H.
• Prasad, Vinod K.
• Szabolcs, Paul

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center
  2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710
• Duke University Hospital
  2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710