What is Cord Blood?
Cord blood is the blood that is left over in your baby’s umbilical cord after birth. Cord blood contains powerful cells called stem cells, which can be used to treat over 80 diseases. Cord blood stem cells are only available at birth.
What is Cord Blood Banking?
Unless you choose to save it, your baby’s cord blood is normally discarded right after you child is born.
Cord blood banking allows you to save your baby’s precious stem cells after birth for future use by your baby or other family members.
How does cord blood banking work?
If you choose to save your baby’s cord blood, you will need to order a cord blood banking kit and bring it with you on the day of delivery.
Your delivery team will use the cord blood banking kit to collect and save your baby’s cord blood right after after birth and send it to our laboratory for preservation.
What are the benefits of cord blood banking?
Your baby’s cord blood contains stem cells which can be used to treat over 80 diseases. Also, new medical usages for stem cells will continue to emerge over the lifetime of your child.
Preserving your child’s cord blood at birth gives them a health advantage later in life to access medical treatments that are only possible with stem cells.
What are the benefits of cord blood banking?
Your baby’s cord blood contains stem cells which can be used to treat over 80 diseases. Also, new medical usages for stem cells will continue to emerge over the lifetime of your child. Preserving your child’s cord blood at birth gives them a health advantage later in life to access medical treatments that are only possible with stem cells.
This table outlines some of the most common uses of stem cells:
| Leukemia | Other Blood Cancers | Metabolic Disorders | Immune System Disorders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia | Acute Myelofibrosis | Adrenoleukodystrophy | Ataxia-Telangiectasia |
| Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia | Beta-Glucuronidase Deficiency | Kostmann Syndrome |
| Acute Myelogenous Leukemia | Essential Thrombocythemia | Gaucher Disease | DiGeorge Syndrome |
| Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia | Hodgkin’s Disease | Hunter Syndrome | Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome |
| Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia | Multiple Myeloma | Hurler Syndrome | Omenn Syndrome |
| Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia | Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma | Krabbe Disease | Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency |
| Juvenile Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia | Polycythemia Vera | Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome | Severe Combined Immunodeficiency |
| Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia | Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia | Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome | Common Variable Immunodeficiency |
| Plasma Cell Leukemia | Metachromatic Leukodystrophy | Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome | |
| Morquio Syndrome | X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome | ||
| Mucolipidosis II | |||
| Mucopolysaccharidoses | |||
| Niemann-Pick Disease | |||
| Osteoporosis | |||
| Sanfilippo Syndrome | |||
| Scheie Syndrome | |||
| Sly Syndrome | |||
| Wolman Disease |
| Red Blood Cell Disorders | Phagocyte Disorders | Other Malignancies | Platelet Disorders | Histiocytic Disorders |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aplastic Anemia | Chediak-Higashi Syndrome | Neuroblastoma | Amegakaryocytosis | Familial Erythrophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis |
| Beta Thalassemia Major | Chronic Granulomatous Disease | Renal Cell Carcinoma | Glanzmann Thrombasthenia | Histiocytosis-X |
| Fanconi Anemia | Neutrophil Actin Deficiency | Retinoblastoma | Hemophagocytosis | |
| Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria | Reticular Dysgenesis | |||
| Pure Red Cell Aplasia | ||||
| Sickle Cell Disease |
Cord Blood Facts
Cord blood contains powerful stem cells.
Hematopoietic stem cells generate immune cells.
A perfect match for your child & potential match for family
Hematopoietic stem cells are used to treat 80+ disorders.
Cord blood stem cells can be banked indefinitely.
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