Cord Blood Stem Cells Information

Why we need to store cord blood? Diseases that can be treated by cord blood cells?

why we need to store cord blood, and the diseases which can be cured by the use of cord blood.

Public Comments

1. its called a chord blood transplant..we use that to put in the baby or child to save he/shes life. the only reason why we do that is because of a condition that they got or that they were born with
2. cord blood is taken when a baby is born, this is taken from umbilical cord of a mother, i came across a very short article with good information about cord blood.
3. I'll give an examples to explain: For instance, you have a child and freeze the cord blood cells from that child's umbilical cord. If that child develops leukemia, its own cord blood cells can be used in a transplant--no searching for an exact match donor because the cells are already available in advance. How it works: The patient is "chemo'd down" which kills off most of the malignant cells, then the transplant is done. The new cells that are transplanted hopefully grow fast and produce more new healthy cells... === My brother had two sons born in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, he was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML). Had they saved the umbilical cords of the boys there would have been a possibility that the cord blood could have been used in a transplant to him when we found that none of us siblings was an exact tissue match for bone marrow transplant.
4. Leukemia is the big one...amazing story here of Eric Drew! http://bloodbanker.com/cord/info/eric-drewa-story-of-cord-blood-saving-a-leukemia-patient