Cord blood stem cells are currently used in the treatment of nearly 80 life-threatening diseases, including cancers, blood disorders, immune system deficiencies, metabolic disorders and bone marrow failure syndromes. As with any transplant, therapeutic success depends upon factors including patient condition, type of disease, recipient/donor matching, and other factors. Autologous stem cells are not generally suitable for treatment of inherited genetic diseases, nor are they guaranteed to provide a cure for other diseases. There is no guarantee that the cord blood will match anyone other than the baby.

Diseases Treated With Stem Cells (as of 04/2017)

Leukemias, Lymphomas, and Tumors

  • Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
  • Brain Tumors
  • Breast Cancer
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
  • Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
  • Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
  • Hodgkin’s Disease
  • Juvenile Mono-myelocytic Leukemia
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Histiocytosis

  • Erythrophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
  • Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
  • Hemophagocytic Syndrome
  • Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
  • X-linked Lymphoproliferative Disease

Myelodysplasias

  • • Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
  • Myelofibrosis

Blood Disorders

  • Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
  • Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD)
  • Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria
  • Congenital Neutropenia
  • Congenital Thrombocytopenia
  • Cooley’s Anemia
  • Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia
  • Kostmann’s Syndrome
  • Pure Red Cell Aplasia
  • Sickle Cell Anemia
  • Thalassemia

Bone Marrow Failures

  • Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
  • Congenital Dyserthropoietic Anemia
  • Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
  • Evan’s Sydrome
  • Fanconi’s Anemia
  • Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
  • Reticular Dysgenesis
  • • Severe Aplastic Anemia
  • Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome
  • Sideroblastic Anemia

Metabolic Diseases

  • Adrenoleukodystrophy
  • Alpha-Mannosidosis
  • Amyloidosis
  • Aspartylglucosaminuria
  • Austin’s Disease
  • Fucosidosis
  • Gangliosidosis
  • Gaucher’s Disease
  • Hunter’s Syndrome
  • Hurler-Scheie Disease
  • I-cell Disease
  • Krabbe Disease
  • Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
  • Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome
  • Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
  • Morquio Syndrome
  • Neiman-Pick Disease
  • Osteopetrosis
  • Sandhoff Disease
  • Sanfilippo Disease
  • Sialidosis
  • Tay Sach Disease
  • Wolman Disease

Immune Deficiencies

  • Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Disease
  • Chronic Granulomatous Disease
  • Common Variable Immune
  • Congenital Immune Deficiency
  • DiGeorge Syndrome
  • Griscelli Syndrome
  • Lymphocyte Adhesion Disease
  • Nezelof Syndrome
  • Omenn Syndrome
  • Severe Combined Immune Deficiency
  • Systemic Lupus (SLE)
  • Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
  • X-linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome
  • X-linked Immune Dysregulation Polyendocrine Enteropathy

Experimental

  • Autism
  • Brain Injury
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • • Diabetes (Type 1)

Legend:

  • Allogeneic Treatments
  • • Allogeneic & Autologous Treatments