If you have been diagnosed with leukemia — or your previously treated disease has recurred — you need a second opinion. We will ensure you get it without delay.
Many people travel a distance to receive cancer care at Roswell Park. Learn how we help to make this easier for you.
We can arrange for Roswell Park’s leukemia experts to review your blood work right away, and set up a consultation with our leukemia and/or our Transplant & Cellular Therapy team within a week.
If you live far from Roswell Park, we aim to make your travel worth every mile and will coordinate your care accordingly, help with accommodations, or arrange for some of your care closer to home at one of our Care Network locations across New York. Call 1-800-ROSWELL (1-800-767-9355) or click the button below to submit a request online.
Why it matters for leukemia
Leukemia is a complex disease with more than 100 different subtypes. You need a care team with focused expertise in diagnosing and treating your type of leukemia and using the latest advanced approaches. This includes:
- Cutting-edge technologies and specialized hematopathologists to accurately and quickly diagnose your leukemia type and identify specific proteins or mutations in your cells that will guide treatment.
- Clinical trials to access the latest drugs. If you have leukemia, you need access to the latest treatments now. In a recent 2-year period, the FDA approved nine new drugs for leukemia and patients at Roswell Park had access to seven of them before their approval through clinical trials.
- Stem cell transplant for all ages. Our transplant team includes some of the nation’s top experts, who pioneered the strategies for improving outcomes and decreasing complications, making stem cell transplant safer than ever. We have provided transplant for patients as young as two months up to age 85.
- Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. This cellular therapy can achieve high remission rates for certain types of leukemia and other blood cancers and disorders. Roswell Park is an authorized provider for all the FDA-approved CAR T-cell therapies and is working on clinical trials of next-generation treatments.
In addition, Roswell Park’s Transplant & Cellular Therapy Center is one of the nation’s top centers for stem cell transplant and is an authorized treatment center for the CAR T-cell therapy Kymriah™ and Tecartus™ for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
What if my leukemia is acute?
Many physicians were taught that acute leukemia is an emergency, and that therapy must start right away. That is still true for some patients. The urgency, however, is to manage any life-threatening complications, such as stroke or respiratory failure. While we still want to start treatment as soon as possible, with most patients we have time to see them first and complete testing of the cancer cells that will help us identify the best and most effective therapy for your specific cancer type.
If you received your leukemia diagnosis in an emergency room or you are currently admitted in another hospital, please call 1-800-ROSWELL (1-800-767-9355) before beginning any treatment. Our experts will confer with your personal physician and can arrange for your transfer to Roswell Park, if necessary.