Today, thousands of cancer patients undergo stem cell transplants each year, giving them renewed hope for a longer life.

The program provides peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) as well as a variety of other services to cancer patients and their families. This includes excellent support services, access to cutting-edge research and assistance for patients and families with transportation, home care and housing if necessary.

FNVHO offers transplant services at its Fairfax location. This program is a unique partnership between FNVHO and the INOVA Hospital System. It was founded in 1989 and is one of the few programs in the country to offer comprehensive transplant services in a community setting and is the only program in the Washington D.C. area to offer a FACT accredited program.

INOVA Fairfax Hospital / Fairfax Stem Cell Transplant Program

The INOVA Fairfax Hospital / Fairfax Stem Cell Transplant Program began in 1989.  The program offers autologous, non-myeloablative, allogeneic and matched unrelated donor transplants. 

A multidisciplinary team approach is used in patient care. It is designed to provide patients with the most effective care possible.

More than 600 bone marrow and peripheral stem cell transplants have been performed to date for a range of diseases including:

• Hodgkin’s disease
• Non-Hodgkin’s disease 
• Multiple Myeloma 
• Leukemia
  

During a patient’s treatment period, he/she may receive their care at either INOVA Fairfax Hospital or in our outpatient facility.  In the outpatient facility patients can receive the individual attention needed with the comfort of going home at night.  This facility is designed to operate like a hospital.  Patients can receive high dose chemotherapy, intravenous antibiotics, blood products and more, whatever may be needed prior to, during and after their transplant.

If a patient requires hospitalization, INOVA Fairfax Hospital has private hepa-filtered rooms designed to provide optimum protection from infections for the severely immunocompromised patient, such as an allogeneic transplant patient. 

The nursing staff, pharmacy and laboratory in both the outpatient facility and the hospital all have years of experience in the field of transplantation.

We have built a collaborative relationship with Life with Cancer to provide outpatient on-site psychosocial support and support groups.  This is in addition to traditional inpatient
Life with Cancer programs and psychosocial intervention.

BMT/Stem Cell Support Group  -  meets the 4^th Thursday of every month
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Life with Cancer Family Center
8411 Pennell Street, Fairfax, VA 22031
This monthly group meeting includes a short education program and group discussion.  It is open to past, current, and upcoming Bone
Marrow Transplant and /or Stem Cell Transplant patients andcaregivers. It is facilitated by an oncology social worker and transplant nurse coordinator.

Please call Donna Eichna, MSN, RN at 703-970-3178 or email donna.eichna@inova.org  if you are interested

 

Our clinical transplant program, cell collection facility and cell processing facility is accredited by The Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT). 

We also are an affiliate transplant center and collection site for unrelated bone marrow transplants with the National Marrow Donor Program ( NMDP ).

If you would like to make an appointment, or if you know someone who would benefit from our services please call 703-208-9202.

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