City of Hope-Banner Health Bone Marrow Transplant Program
City of Hope and Banner Health teamed up to develop a Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) Program in Phoenix, AZ, in April of 1997. This innovative partnership is the only transplant program serving the population of Maricopa County and surrounding areas. Transplant patients in Arizona are now treated closer to home, while receiving the latest in HCT procedures developed at City of Hope – providing a fully-integrated program between the two sites.
The City of Hope/Banner Health HCT unit cares for patients requiring autologous, allogeneic and matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplants. There are treatment programs for patients with:
- Acute leukemia
- Chronic leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Hodgkins disease
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Aplastic anemia
Additionally, the partnership can also provide treatment for selected inherited diseases such as sickle cell anemia and solid tumors such as breast, ovarian and testicular cancer.
The Phoenix HCT staff, who have been trained by City of Hope, are:
Jeffrey Schriber, M.D., F.R.C.P., Medical Director
Clarence Sarkodee-Adoo, M.D., Staff Physician
Adrienne Briggs, M.D., Staff Physician
Kaiser Permanente Partnership
The City of Hope Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Program and Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Center developed a partnership in 1998 to offer marrow and stem cell transplantation services to Kaiser Permanente health plan members.
Since then, all Kaiser Permanente patients needing transplant have had their procedures performed at City of Hope. Kaiser Permanente members now have access to a wider variety of treatment programs, including new therapeutic approaches designed to improve outcomes and cure rates.
Several physicians from the Kaiser Permanente bone marrow transplant medical group are now members of the City of Hope HCT program, and work side-by-side with City of Hope staff. These physicians are responsible for all Kaiser patients under one unified program of patient care.
Neil Kogut, M.D., Director
Firoozeh Sahebi, M.D.
Ricardo Spielberger, M.D.
Ji-Lian Cai, M.D.
Leonardo Farol, M.D.
Tower Cancer Research Foundation Partnership
City of Hope, through an affiliation with the prestigious Tower Cancer Research Foundation (TCRF), now brings clinical trials for cancer treatment to Los Angeles' Westside communities.
Many important factors influence cancer treatment decisions, but location should not be one of them. Westside residents have access to City of Hope's innovative clinical trials at TCRF's Beverly Hills, Calif., location. There, they can undergo advanced treatment options, while remaining closer to home and the routines of daily life.
For information, contact City of Hope at 866-434-HOPE (4673) or TCRF at 310-289-2840.