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| Benefits of Cord Blood Banking |
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 Cord blood stem cells are not just for baby itself, but may help other members of the family as well.- Siblings have a 25% chance of being a suitable match. The reason why siblings are more likely to match is because they get half of their HLA markers from each parent.
- 60% higher chance of locating a matching cord blood unit in the family versus bone marrow [1].
- Immediately available and can minimize disease progression in early treatment.
- Preserving them "stops the clock" and protects the cells from aging and being exposed to environmental factors and common viruses that can decrease their function.
- The longest study to date, published in 2011 by Broxmeyer et. al. found that stem cells cyro-preserved for 22.5 years engrafted as expected. There was no significant loss of stem cell recovery or proliferation2.
1Beatty PG, Boucher KM, Mori M, et. al. 2000. Probability of Finding HLA-mismatched Related or Unrelated Marrow of Cord Blood Donors. Human Immunol, 61(8),834-40.
2Broxmeyer HE, Lee M., Hangoc G, et. al. 2011. Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, generation of induced pluripotent stem cells, and isolation of endothelial progenitors from 21- to 23.5-year cryopreserved cord blood. Blood, 117(18), 4773-4777. |
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