Advocate Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular

Overview

Advocate Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital provides adult autologous, matched related-allogeneic, matched un-related allogeneic transplants, haploidentical, as well as CBU transplantation for hematological malignancies such as Leukemia, Myeloma and Lymphoma and non-malignancies as Aplastic Anemia and Sickle Cell Anemia. The program offers Immune Effector Cellular therapies such as DLI, CAR T-cell therapy, Bi-specific T-cell engagers. Collectively, our physicians have more than 60 years of transplant experience, and we offer expert and personalized care with a dedicated team of APPs, nurses, coordinators, pharmacists, nutritionists, and physical and occupational therapists.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1994 and has been an NMDP transplant center since January 2015.

Attending physicians

Adult - Syed A. Abutalib, Jacob D. Bitran, Syed N. Haider

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult only

Other programs and services

We have discounted housing and nearby hotels. There is area transportation and special services available to help support patient and family members during the transplant process. We have a Cancer Survivorship Center which provides free Social Work and Counseling Services to patients and their care-givers. We have a state-of-the-art Apheresis & Collection center. We have Advanced Practice Providers and BMT Nurse Navigators to assist patients along their journey.

Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are below the expected rate for this center*.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2020, 2021, 2022 and
Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 83 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 46.8%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 51.9% and 71.2%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report

at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.

The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.

Total adult transplants

137

Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 25	Cord blood 0	Total 25
Unrelated donor	Marrow 13	PBSC 7	Cord blood 0	Total 20
Total allogeneic	Marrow 13	PBSC 32	Cord blood 0	Total 45
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 92	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 92
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 137	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 137

All Diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

	0-18	19-44	45-64	65+	Total
Related	0-18 0	19-44 5	45-64 16	65+ 4	Total 25
Unrelated	0-18 0	19-44 2	45-64 6	65+ 12	Total 20
Autologous	0-18 0	19-44 4	45-64 41	65+ 47	Total 92
Total	0-18 0	19-44 11	45-64 63	65+ 63	Total 137

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants can be found:

U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
List of diseases

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator

Zachary Di Giulio

Phone: (847) 723-8538

Email: zachary.digiulio@aah.org

If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center’s direct phone number.

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743
Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410. (Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

More resources

Choosing a transplant center
Preparing for transplant
Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
Support and resources (including non-English materials)
U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov

No survivorship program information is available. Contact the center for information about post-transplant care.