How can donating my babys cord blood help save a life?
Each year there are thousands of patients who are diagnosed with a disease that may be successfully treated with a stem cell transplant. The stem cells found in your baby’s cord blood may in fact be the most appropriate match for a patient in desperate need of transplant. A larger public inventory of cord blood will give more patients better opportunities of finding the right stem cell match. Without that match, there is no way for the patient to undergo a transplant. Without a transplant, the prognosis for most of these patients is poor.
