Current Treatments

Cord blood stem cells are used today to treat more than 80 diseases, including numerous types of malignancies, anemias, inherited metabolic disorders and deficiencies of the immune system.¹⁰  In fact, cord blood stem cells have been used in more than 35,000 transplants worldwide.

Below are just a few of the diseases and conditions that have been treated with cord blood stem cells.
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Blood Disorders

• Beta thalassemia major
• Sickle cell disease
• Aplastic anemia
• Fanconi anemia
• Pure red cell aplasia
• Amegakaryocytosis/congenital thrombocytopenia

Inherited Metabolic Disorders

• Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS)
• Hurler’s syndrome (MPS-IH)
• Sanfilippo syndrome (MPS-III)
• Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome (MPS-VI)
• Adrenoleukodystrophy
• Krabbe disease
• Niemann-Pick disease
• Metachromatic leukodystrophy
• Scheie syndrome(MPS-IS)
• Hunter’s syndrome(MPS-II)
• Morquio syndrome(MPS-IV)
• Sly syndrome, beta-glucuronidase deficiency (MPS-VII)
• Mucolipidosis II (I-cell disease)
• Gaucher’s disease
• Wolman disease

Cancers

• Acute lymphoblastic leukemia(ALL)
• Acute myelogenous leukemia(AML)
• Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
• Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia (JCML)
• Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
• Ewing’s sarcoma
• Retinoblastoma
• Neuroblastoma

Inherited Immune System Disorders

• Ataxia-telangiectasia
• Kostmann syndrome
• Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
• DiGeorge syndrome
• Bare lymphocyte syndrome
• Omenn syndrome
• Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
• Adenosinedeaminase (ADA) deficient SCID
• Common variable immunodeficiency
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
• X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome