Treatments


When your child is not responding to chemotherapy or other treatments to help him/her produce healthy blood cells in the bone marrow, your specialist may recommend a bone marrow/stem cell transplant.

You can receive unrelated donor or umbilical cord blood transplants when family donors are not available. We are part of the National Marrow Donor Program so you have access to a diverse donor population.

  • CAR T Therapy

    CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T therapy are autologous T cells that are engineered to attack and destroy different types of leukemia or lymphoma based on their receptors.

  • Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) Therapies

    Our leaders at Sylvester have expertise in managing GVHD, one of the most complicated and life altering complications post transplantation. Our leaders have access to all current therapies, including ECP (Extracorporeal photopheresis). ECP involves extracting white blood cells from the body, exposing them to UV light and re-inserting them back into the patient.

  • Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) Therapies

    Our leaders at Sylvester have expertise in managing GVHD, one of the most complicated and life altering complications post transplantation. Our leaders have access to all current therapies, including ECP (Extracorporeal photopheresis). ECP involves extracting white blood cells from the body, exposing them to UV light and re-inserting them back into the patient.

  • Clinical Trials

    Our transplant team has clinical trials available for CAR T therapies, for different transplant conditions, and for supportive care.

  • Stem Cell Harvesting

    Blood-producing stem cells may be removed from bone marrow in the back of your hip (bone marrow transplant). These cells can also come from the bloodstream. In the latter case, we use a medication to draw bone marrow cells into the blood. This is called a stem cell transplant. Most transplants are stem-cell transplants.

  • Stem Cell Transplant

    After collecting the stem cells, your child will be admitted to the hospital to receive a course of high-dose chemotherapy to eliminate residual cancer cells from the body. Next, the previously collected stem cells are returned to the body through an intravenous catheter.

    Over the following days, your child’s blood counts will fall to low levels. Chemotherapy destroyed the unhealthy marrow calls. After a few days, the new stem cells will start producing blood. Until they do, there is a high risk of infection due to low white blood cells, and of bleeding due to low platelets. He or she will need blood transfusions to counter the lack of red blood cells and protection from infection sources by being in isolation.

  • Post-Transplant Care

    After transplant and discharge from the hospital, your child will be followed up long-term at our clinic. Your child will be monitored by a transplant and disease specialists and a psychologist.