How long do patients need to stay in Salt Lake City if they have the tandem transplant treatment you offer?
Initially, every new patient will go through a diagnostic work up and consultation with one of our myeloma specialists. You should plan on spending 4-5 days in Salt Lake City for two full days of testing and the consultation. For each transplant, a patient will need to stay in Salt Lake City for about one month. The transplants are done on an outpatient basis with no need to spend nights in the hospital unless a complication occurs. However, patients are vulnerable during the treatment process and we want them to stay close to the hospital so they have immediate access to our medical team if they need it. Our patients have their clinic visits during the day, but they stay in a hotel or extended-stay facility overnight where they can have some privacy and relax away from the hospital setting.
