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Choosing a Transplant Center:
A Patient's Guide

If you need a bone marrow or cord blood transplant and do not have a matching donor in your family, your doctor can search for an adult donor or cord blood unit for you on the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Registry.

There are more than 170 NMDP transplant centers in the United States where you may be able to receive a transplant from an unrelated donor or cord blood unit on the NMDP Registry. NMDP compiles detailed information to help you and your doctors choose the transplant center that is best for you — see U.S. NMDP transplant centers.

There are also many international NMDP transplant centers.

Information to help you with your choice

Things to think about when choosing a transplant center
How the statistics can help you understand the differences between transplant centers
The HLA matching level required at different centers
Charts showing the number of transplants each U.S. NMDP transplant center has done (by disease category)
Donor search and other pre-transplant costs at different centers
Financial information, such as tips for learning about your health care coverage
A glossary of words related to bone marrow and cord blood transplants
Features of NMDP transplant centers that help ensure you receive quality treatment
Things to think about before changing transplant centers

Other transplant center listings

You can learn more about NMDP transplant centers as well as other centers that do transplants using cells from a related donor or cells collected from the patient (autologous transplants) in the BMT InfoNet Transplant Center Directory: http://www.bmtinfonet.org/centers.

BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a nonprofit organization that provides information and emotional support to transplant patients and their families.

Have questions?

The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Office of Patient Advocacy is here to help. You can contact the NMDP Office of Patient Advocacy by phone or e-mail.

Get this guide in printed format

To request a printed copy of Choosing a Transplant Center: A Patient's Guide, use the patient materials request form. The printed guide includes the complete listings of all U.S. NMDP transplant centers. It also includes much of the same information provided in this online guide to help you choose a center.

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