Acute leukaemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Acute myelogenous leukaemia
When your child is born you have the opportunity to collect and store the stem cells from the placenta and umbilical cord.
Stem cells are the building blocks of life, they create a direct link between your child’s good health at the time they are born and their good health in the future. Should your child face any of a vast range of health issues in later life, their stem cells may be the key to repairing and restoring their health.
Used routinely in transplant medicine for treating leukaemia’s and other blood disorders, cord blood stem cells collected from the placenta after birth now form part of standard therapy for over 85 diseases.
Cord tissue stem cells collected from the umbilical cord have the potential to renew and restore a variety of tissue types which could make them invaluable to regenerative therapies for illnesses such as strokes, diabetes and heart disease.
Since the first cord blood transplant in 1988, we have witnessed extraordinary developments in medical science. With over 40,000 cord blood transplants performed worldwide and over 300 clinical trials underway, stem cell treatment has become a reality for many families.
There are two main types of stem cells available when storing cord blood and cord tissue, for the standard treatment of blood related illnesses, as well as the potential use for regenerative therapies.
Haematopoietic stem cells (HSC’s) found in cord blood are used routinely in transplant medicine and form part of standard therapies for the following:
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Acute myelogenous leukaemia
Chronic myelogenous leukaemia
Juvenile myelogenous leukaemia
Hodgkins
lymphoma
Non hodgkins lymphoma
Aplastic
anaemia
Fanconi
anaemia
Stem cells like those found in cord tissue have the potential to be used in the future for treatment of the following:
Phase 1
clinical trials
Phase 1 and 2
clinical trials
Phase 1 and 2
clinical trials
Phase 2
clinical trials
Phase 1 and 2
clinical trials
Phase 3
clinical trials
There are over 300 therapies in clinical trial or late stages of research using umbilical cord stem cells and many of these will become a reality in the lifetime of a child born today.