Johns Hopkins cancer research and treatment for blood cancers, including advanced therapies and dedicated experts, is available at Sibley Memorial Hospital's Kimmel Cancer Center in the D.C. region.This includes Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) services, with Johns Hopkins physicians—appointed by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine—providing a full range of the most advanced treatments and conducting ongoing clinical trials.
An Academic Center of Excellence
As a Johns Hopkins academic center, Sibley offers state-of-the-art treatments not available at community hospitals. Including IPOP (inpatient/outpatient) a new, carefully adapted approach to stem cell transplants which allows patients to be at home for most of their treatment, rather than spending months in the hospital. Sibley also offers therapies that attack specific parts of cancer cells, with less toxicity than other treatments. Opening treatment options to patients of all ages. Advanced radiology therapies available at Sibley include proton therapy, which is rarely available even at other large cancer centers.
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Lymphoma and Cellular Therapy
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Dr Nina Wagner-Johnston about the treatment of lymphoma and the newly opened Cellular Therapy Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC.
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Novel Bone Marrow Transplant Can Cure Sickle Cell Disease
A bone marrow transplant process co-developed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at Johns Hopkins and about 20 additional cancer centers nationwide and in London.
