Best Multiple Myeloma Hospitals: Why Top Cancer Centers Aren’t Always Best for Myeloma. Looking for the best hospital for multiple myeloma? Learn why top cancer centers and top myeloma specialists are not always the same—and how to choose the right treatment center.
“You will find you are between 1.9 and 5.7 times more likely to die in 5 years at the average SEER facility (Statistics developed by the National Cancer Institute) than if under the care of one of these exceptional myeloma professionals or under the care of a doctor considered to be a myeloma specialist.”
What Makes a Great Myeloma Center?
- Dedicated myeloma team
- Stem cell transplant program
- CAR-T access
- Bispecific antibodies
- Clinical trials
- Myeloma-only physicians
Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Myeloma Center
- How many myeloma patients do you treat yearly?
- Do you offer CAR-T?
- Do you offer bispecific antibodies?
- What clinical trials are available?
- How often do you perform transplants?’
Leading U.S. Multiple Myeloma Centers
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Myeloma Center
- Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research
The point of this blog post is to note that while the list of “Top-Rated US Cancer Centers” is worthy of note, the list of Myeloma (MM) Specialists and Hospitals below is different and more nuanced.
By nuanced, I mean, for instance, that James Berenson’s Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research, manages multiple myeloma very differently than MD Anderson does. The IMBCR does not provide autologous stem cell transplants, while MD Anderson does. The IMBCR focuses exclusively on multiple myeloma and MD Anderson treats all cancers.
Both organizations offer above-average five-year survival rates for MM patients, but they provide MM patients with fundamentally different MM experiences. Dr. Berenson is a multiple myeloma specialist, while MDAnderson is a cancer institution with several practicing oncologists.
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David Emerson
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“University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is once again the number-one ranked cancer hospital in America in the annual ratings from US News & World Report…
Rounding out the top five are:
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota;
- Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; and
- Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts…
The rest of the top 10 are:
- Cleveland Clinic;
- UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida;
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (tied for 8th); and
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
Myeloma is considered to be a rare, complex, and historically believed to be an incurable cancer. This web site provided a listing of survival rates of Multiple Myeloma Specialists. You will find you are between 1.9 and 5.7 times more likely to die in 5 years at the average SEER facility(Statistics developed by the National Cancer Institute) than if under the care of one of these exceptional myeloma professionals or under the care of a doctor considered to be a myeloma specialist…
Western Region
- Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research(Dr.James Berenson), West Hollywood, CA
- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) , Seattle Washington
Southern Region
- MD Anderson, Houston, TX
- UAMS(Dr. Fritz Van Rhee), Little Rock AR –
- Shands at the University of Florida (Jan S. Moreb. MD) Gainsville, FL –
Midwest Region
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH –
- Kenwood Hospital, Oncology/Hematology Care( Dr. Edward A. Faber Jr,) Cincinnati Ohio
- Mayo Clinic(Dr. Vincent Rajkumar), Rochester, MN
- Medical College of Wisconsin(Dr Parameswaran Hari), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- The James – Ohio State University (Dr. Craig Hofmeister) Columbus, Ohio
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics(Dr. Guido Tricot), Iowa City, Iowa
- University of Kansas Cancer Center (Siddhartha Ganguly, MD, FACP) Kansas City, Kansas
- University of Nebraska Medical Center ,Omaha, Nebraska –
Eastern Region
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center – Lebanon, NH
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center(Sergio Giralt, MD), New York, NY
- The Mount Sinai Medical Center(Bart Barlogie, MD and Sundar Jagannath, MD ) NY, NY
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute(Phillip McCarthy MD), Buffalo, NY
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