St. Louis University Hospital has announced the opening of a new 16-room outpatient bone marrow transplant center.
The center — the first of its kind in the region — will allow patients to receive bone marrow transplants and treatments in an outpatient setting.
"Patients prefer to stay in the comforts of their home, and the new outpatient bone marrow transplant center provides patients the comfort of home during an extremely difficult time in their lives," Friedrich G. Schuening, MD, division of hematology and oncology director at the Saint Louis University Cancer Center, said in a statement.
Bone Marrow Transplantation, a Nature publication, and the Journal of Clinical Oncology have published studies which suggest there is no difference in clinical complications between patients needing a bone marrow transplant who were treated in an outpatient setting versus those treated exclusively in an inpatient setting.
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The center — the first of its kind in the region — will allow patients to receive bone marrow transplants and treatments in an outpatient setting.
"Patients prefer to stay in the comforts of their home, and the new outpatient bone marrow transplant center provides patients the comfort of home during an extremely difficult time in their lives," Friedrich G. Schuening, MD, division of hematology and oncology director at the Saint Louis University Cancer Center, said in a statement.
Bone Marrow Transplantation, a Nature publication, and the Journal of Clinical Oncology have published studies which suggest there is no difference in clinical complications between patients needing a bone marrow transplant who were treated in an outpatient setting versus those treated exclusively in an inpatient setting.
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