Page 24 - HOH

“The outpatient and inpatient transplant programs are an important part of our mission to
provide sophisticated, high-quality cancer care to patients here in our region and also those
coming from the Caribbean, Latin America and beyond,” said Dr. Koehne, who has extensive
experience with such procedures from his long tenure at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center in New York, where he served as one of the leading physicians in the Adult Bone

Marrow Transplantation Service in the Division of Hematologic Oncology prior to joining Miami
Cancer Institute.

For the outpatient transplants, stem cells are painlessly collected from the patient’s blood over

several days and then frozen. The patient receives a high dose of chemotherapy a few days
before the stem cells are thawed and re-infused. For about three weeks after the transplant,
patients come to the Institute every day to have their blood monitored. They must live or stay
within 45 minutes of Miami Cancer Institute to qualify for the outpatient procedure.

“Uniformly requiring hospitalization for an autologous stem cell transplant no longer benefits the

patient, hospital or community,” added Dr. Koehne. “This procedure is very well-tolerated.”

http://www.awe24.com/20190110/34340/Miami_Cancer_Institute_Now_Offeri

ng_Stem_Cell_Transplantations