I’ve heard that storing my baby’s cells may help if he or she develops a blood disorder like childhood leukaemia. Is that true?
It is likely that your baby’s own cord blood stem cells may not be suitable to treat blood disorders such as childhood leukaemia. In fact, the nature of childhood leukaemia means that stem cells from a matched donor (an allogeneic transplant) are more likely to be of use than your child’s own stem cells (an autologous transplant). Increasing the availability of cord blood stem cells for allogeneic transplants for other patients who needs them, including your family, is one reason why it’s beneficial to store your baby’s cord blood stem cells in our bank with its growing register of available tissue typed cord blood units.
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