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.

Cord Blood Banking
Cord Blood Banking

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.

Cord Blood Banking
Cord Blood Banking

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

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Cord Blood Banking
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Newborn stem cells are only available at birth. Take this once in a lifetime opportunity to give the gift of health.

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Newborn stem cells are only available at birth. Take this once in a lifetime opportunity to give the gift of health.