Bone Marrow Transplant

Treatment of Children

Mayo Clinic offers specialized pediatric bone marrow transplant (BMT) services for children and adolescents at all three Mayo Clinic locations:

• Mayo Clinic in Arizona has partnered with Phoenix Children's Hospital to provide bone marrow transplant for children. The transplant facility is located at Phoenix Children's Hospital. To learn more, click here.


• Mayo Clinic in Florida has joined with Nemours Children's Clinic and Wolfson Children's Hospital to offer bone marrow transplant for children. To learn more, click here.


• At Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, specialists in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology provide coordinated, multispecialty care for children of all ages. Children who are hospitalized for bone marrow transplant are patients at Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital, a family-friendly, colorful, specially designed children's hospital within Saint Marys Hospital.

Diseases treated

Children and adolescents with the following conditions may be candidates for a bone marrow transplant:

• Adenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
• Aplastic anemia (severe)
• Fanconi's anemia
• High grade gliomas (See primary brain tumors)
• Leukemia
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia
  • Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia)
  • Acute myelogeous leukemia
  • Acute lymphocytic leukemia
• Myelodysplastic syndrome
• Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Medulloblastoma (See pediatric brain tumors)
• Metabolic/genetic-selected inborn error correctable with transplant
  • Diamond-Blackfan anemia
  • MPS VI
  • SCI
  • Thalassemia
• Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)
• Sickle Cell anemia (See Anemia in Children)
• Solid tumors
  • Anaplastic astrocytoma
  • Clear cell sarcoma
  • Ewing's sarcoma
  • Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
  • Hepatoblastoma
  • Germ cell tumor
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Primitive neuroectodermal tumor
  • Wilms' tumor

Treatment Team

In Minnesota, this treatment will involve specialists in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology.

In Arizona, this treatment will involve specialists in Hematology and Oncology.

In Florida, this treatment will involve specialists in Hematology and Oncology.

Appointments

Florida

For appointments or information concerning transplants for children and Nemours Children's Clinic, call (904) 858-3992 or (904) 858-3115 or visit their Web site.

Minnesota

For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at (507) 538-3270 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central time Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.

Arizona

For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at (800) 446-2279 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mountain time Monday through Friday, or complete an online appointment request form.