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Let X and Y be two Banach spaces, each isomorphic to a complemented subspace of the other. In 1996, W. T. Gowers solved the Schroeder-Bernstein Problem for Banach spaces by showing that X is not necessarily isomorphic to Y. In this paper, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on the quintuples (p,q,r,s,t) in ℕ for X to be isomorphic to Y whenever
⎧$X ~ X^p ⊕ Y^q$,
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⎩ $Y^t ~ X^r ⊕ Y^s$.
Such quintuples are called Schroeder-Bernstein quintuples for Banach spaces and they yield a unification of the known decomposition methods in Banach spaces involving finite sums of X and Y, similar to Pełczyński's decomposition method. Inspired by this result, we also introduce the notion of Schroeder-Bernstein sextuples for Banach spaces and pose a conjecture which would complete their characterization.