Jean E. Sanders, MD

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Dr. Sanders is the director of pediatric clinical hematopoietic cell transplantation at SCCA and Seattle Children's. Read more about Dr. Sanders and her work.

 

Title

Seattle Children's

Bone Marrow Transplantation Service, Director

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Clinical Research Division, Member

UW School of Medicine
Clinical Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Director
Department of Pediatrics, Professor

Gerald and Gloria Swanson Endowed Chair

 

 

 

 

Patient Care Philosophy:

Dr. Sanders' goal is to eliminate cancer as a cause of human suffering and death. She conducts research of the highest standards to improve prevention and treatment of cancer and related diseases.
 

 

 

Cancer Types / Diagnosis:

• Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)
• Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
• Aplastic Anemia - Children
• Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
• Bone Marrow Transplant - Children
• Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
• Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
• Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID)
• Congenital Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia (CAMT)
• Diamond-Blackfan Anemia (DBA)
• Dyskeratosis Congenita (DKC)
• Fanconi Anemia
• Graft versus Host Disease
• Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
• HIV Malignancies
• Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Immune Deficiency Diseases
• IPEX Syndrome
• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
• Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
• Leukemia
• Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency (LAD)
• Long-Term Follow-up (Child)
• Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS, RA, RAEB, RAEBT)
• Myeloproliferative Disorder (MPD)
• Neuroblastoma
• Neutropenia
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Osteopetrosis
• Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
• Scleroderma
• Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID)
• Severe Congenital Neutropenia
• Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome (SDS)
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Storage Diseases
• Thalassemia
• Thrombosis
• Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS)

 

 

Clinical Expertise:

Pediatric bone-marrow and stem-cell transplantation;

Long-term effects of cancer treatment on children

 

 

 

Education And Training:

• University of Iowa, Medicine, 1970

 

More Information:

Dr. Sanders developed and conducts a weekly chronic graft-versus-host-disease clinic for children who live in, or travel to, the greater Seattle area, and who are interested in coming to this clinic for management of their chronic graft-versus-host-disease. She also conducts a long-term follow-up outreach clinic twice a year at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington. This clinic primarily sees patients with chronic graft-versus-host-disease.
 

For more information about Dr. Jean E. Sanders's clinical and research expertise, click here.

Archived Patient Power Webcasts

• December 03, 2006 Bone Marrow Transplant For Children