What can cord blood
stem cells treat?

Diseases and Conditions

Many expecting mothers like you are wondering if they need to store their baby’s cord blood.

This often leads to the question, what can stem cells from cord blood treat? Here is a look at the diseases and conditions that stem cells from cord blood are currently used to treat.  There are approximately 80 diseases and conditions where stem cells are being used.

Do you have a history of these conditions in your family?  If so, storing cord blood is a nice insurance policy for your developing baby.  If not, you are freer to donate your cord blood and cord blood tissue versus letting it go to medical waste.

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Treatment Conditions

Donated cord blood could possibly help save the life from someone afflicted with one of the following diseases or conditions:

CANCERS:
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
  • Burkitt’s Lymphoma
  • Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
  • Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Chromic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML)
  • Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
  • Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis
  • Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
BLOOD DISORDERS:
  • E-β+ Thalassemia
  • E-βo Thalassemia
  • HbSC Disease
  • Sickle βo Thalassemia
  • Sickle-Cell Anemia (Hemoglobin SS)
  • α-Thalassemia Major (Hydrops Fetalis)
  • β-Thalassemia Intermedia
  • β-Thalassemia Major (Cooley’s Anemia)
MISCELLANEOUS:
  • Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
  • Osteopetrosis
  • Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
METABOLIC DISORDERS:
  • Adrenoleukodystrophy Gaucher’s Disease (Infantile)
  • Alpha Mannosidosis
  • Gunther Disease
  • Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
  • Hunter Syndrome
  • Hurler Syndrome
  • Hurler-Scheie Syndrome
  • Krabbe Disease (Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy)
  • Lesch-Nyhan Disease
  • Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome
  • Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
  • Mucolipidosis Type II, III
  • Niemann Pick Syndrome, Type A and B
  • Sandhoff Syndrome
  • Sanfilippo Syndrome
  • Tay-Sachs Disease
IMMUNODEFICIENCIES:
  • Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency
  • Ataxia Telangiectasia
  • Chronic Granulomatous Disease
  • DiGeorge Syndrome
  • IKK Gamma Deficiency
  • Immune Dysregulation Polyendocrineopathy
  • Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency
  • Myelokathexis X-linked Immunodeficiency
  • Omenn’s Syndrome
  • Reticular Dysplasia
  • Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
  • Thymic Dysplasia
  • Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
  • X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia
  • X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease
  • X-Linked Mucolipidosis, Type II
BONE MARROW FAILURE SYNDROMES:
  • Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
  • Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia
  • Congenital Sideroblastic Anemia
  • Cyclic Neutropenia
  • Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
  • Dyskeratosis Congenita
  • Evan’s Syndrome
  • Fanconi Anemia
  • Glanzmann’s Disease
  • Juvenile Dermatomyositis
  • Kostmann’s Syndrome
  • Red Cell Aplasia
  • Severe Aplastic Anemia
  • Shwachman Syndrome
  • Thrombocytopenia with absent radius (TAR Syndrome Autoimmune Neutropenia – Severe)

After reviewing the above list, please feel free to call us at 1-800-555-1234.

Cord-Blood.org is not a bank so we are not going to talk you into storing your baby’s cord blood, but we are here to help answer your questions.

If you know you are not interested in storing your baby’s cord blood, please donate it so that it may save the life of someone else or be used in a new scientific discovery that is saving of thousands.

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