National Leaders in Allogeneic Transplantation
For an 12th consecutive year, The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute has been recognized as having among the best survival outcomes in the United States for bone marrow transplants.
NH-BMT is the ONLY adult BMT program in the United States that achieved one year Allogeneic transplant survival outcomes that significantly exceeded their expected survival rate for the last 12 consecutive reporting cycles, is the largest Allogenic program in Georgia, and the only transplant center in Georgia to exceed survival outcomes. The one-year survival of Allogeneic patients transplanted at Northside was 80.8%.*
For additional information, click Survival Data.
Northside Immunotherapy Program First to Offer New CAR T-cell Therapy for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BREYANZI™ (lisocabtagene maraleucel; liso-cel), from Bristol Myers, a CD19-directed genetically modified autologous T-cell immunotherapy, for the treatment of adult patients with:
- Relapsed or refractory (R/R) large B-cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy.
- Including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) not otherwise specified (including DLBCL arising from indolent lymphoma).
- High-grade B-cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma grade 3B.
We are the first program in Georgia to offer this latest chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. To read more about Breyanzi CAR T-cell Therapy, click here.
To make a CAR T-cell referral, or to speak with a physician, please call 404-255-1930.
New CAR T-cell Treatment Options for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients
The Cellular Immunotherapy program at Northside Hospital has been an authorized CAR T-cell treatment center since 2018. We now offer all four FDA-approved CAR-T-cell products: 1) Breyanzi, Yescarta and Kymriah for patients with R/R large B-cell lymphomas including transformed follicular lymphoma, 2) Tecartus for patients with R/R mantle cell lymphoma, 3) Yescarta for patients with R/R follicular lymphoma, and 4) Kymriah for patients with R/R B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Click here to review the newest CAR T-cell products and indications.
Are Most Eligible or Ineligible for CAR T-cell Therapy?
Busting Marrow Myths will dispel, educate and empower patients, families and health care professionals. Check out all seven episodes providing answers, inspiration, resources and coping skills sure to make a difference.
To listen to this podcast, featuring Dr. H Kent Holland of Northside Hospital, please click here:
We Congratulate Katherine Welch on her Five Year Leukemia/BMT Anniversary
and her Son Michael’s Fifth Birthday
To read more of Katherine and her son’s amazing journey, please Click here.
Advances in Immunotherapy for Cancer: Novel Phase I Clinical Research Trial Open for Enrollment
Dr Bashey’s Cancer Support Community’s, Frankly Speaking About Multiple Myeloma, Presentation is Now Available
Congratulations to the NH-BMT Data Management Department
During the recent 2021 CIBMTR Tandem meetings, the BMT Program’s data management department and supervisor, Katie Jackson, BS, CCRC, program data supervisor, were recognized as one of the nation’s 2020 top performing transplant centers with a 0.6% to 1.0% critical field error rate. No other adult transplant program in the nation achieved these results.The Program’s auditing/training procedures were also recognized.
Katie also was a co-presenter for the Tandem Meeting session, HCT Product & Infusion. Click here to review presentation. We congratulate the entire Northside BMT data management team.
Northside Hospital Cancer Institute’s Cancer Care 2021 Winter Edition Newsletter Features BMT Program Clinical Research Publications and 2020 Multiple Myeloma Symposium
Click here to download the full newsletter
Fall 2020 / Winter 2021 BMT Newsletter
In this issue: Dr. Scott Solomon Co-Authors Novel Clinical Research CAR T-Cell Peer Reviewed Article, More CAR T-Cell Therapies Available at the Immunotherapy Program at Northside Hospital, and more.
Click here to read the full issue.
2020 Castle Connolly Top Doctor Awards
We are proud to announce our five BMTGA physicians were selected as 2020 Castle Connolly Top Doctor recipients and were recently featured in the New York Times. We congratulate our dedicated physicians.
View the full Awards here
Congratulation to the NH-BMT Program
Successful BMT CTN Grant Renewal 2017 – 2023
NH-BMT program achieved BMT CTN Core Center Grant renewal funding for years 2017 - 2023. Past performance, current application, and PI leadership contributed to the grant renewal. NH-BMT applied as a consortium with University of Miami and Levine Cancer Institute. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) provide BMT CTN research grant funding.
Achieving this award is a validation of the efforts of each person in the program, the support of the administration, and leadership of the BMTGA physicians. For further information, please read Press Release.
Advances in Immunotherapy for Cancer: Novel Phase I Clinical Research Trial Open for Enrollment
Advances in Immunotherapy for Cancer: Novel Phase I Clinical Research Trial Open for Enrollment
Advances in Immunotherapy for Cancer: Novel Phase I Clinical Research Trial Open for Enrollment
Advances in Immunotherapy for Cancer: Novel Phase I Clinical Research Trial Open for Enrollment
Post- Blood and Marrow Transplant Immunization Schedule- What You Need to Know
After blood and marrow transplant, patients will need to be re-immunized with all childhood vaccinations due to their new immune systems being immature and vulnerable to diseases/infections. It is recommended that post-transplant patients begin their vaccination schedule six months after transplant unless clinically contraindicated. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), recommends the following:
- Inactivated influenza vaccine should be administered beginning at least 6 months after HCT and annually thereafter for the life of the patient.
- Sequential administration of 3 doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is recommended, beginning 3-6 months after the transplant, followed by a dose of PPSV.
- A 3-dose regimen of Hib vaccine should be administered beginning 6 months after transplant; at least 1 month should separate the doses.
- MMR vaccine should be administered 24 months after transplant if the HCT recipient is immunocompetent.
- If a decision is made to vaccinate with varicella vaccine, the vaccine should be administered a minimum of 24 months after transplantation if the HCT recipient is presumed to be immunocompetent.
Please click here to view the NH-BMT post-transplant vaccination schedule recommended for both autologous and allogeneic transplant recipients. For more specific information, see Tomblyn M, Chiller T, Einsele H, et al. Guidelines for Preventing Infectious Complications among Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients: A Global Perspective [1.9MB, 96 pages]. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 15:1143-1238;2009 or visit http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines.