Treatable Diseases and Future Uses of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells
Today, cord blood stems cells are used in the treatment of over 40 life-threatening diseases, including a wide range of cancers, genetic diseases, immune system deficiencies, and blood disorders (see list below).
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Cancers
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
- Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)
- Burkitt's lymphoma
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
- Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia (JCML)
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
- Liposarcoma
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
- Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
- Neuroblastoma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
Bone Marrow Failure Systems
- Severe aplastic anemia
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia
- Dyskeratosis congenita
- Fanconi anemia
- Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
- Kostmann's syndrome
Hemoglobinpathies/Blood Disorders
- Sickle-cell anemia
- ß-Thalassemia (Cooley's anemia)
Inborn Errors of Metabolism
- Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Batten disease (inherited neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis)
- Gunther disease
- Hunter syndrome
- Hurler syndrome
- Krabbe disease (globoid cell leukodystrophy)
- Lesch-Nyhan disease
- Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
Immunodeficiencies
- Omenn's syndrome
- Severe combined immune deficiency (SCID and SCID-ADA)
- Reticular dysplasia
- Thymic dysplasia
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
- X-linked lymphoproliferative disease
- Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
Other Diseases
- Langerhan's cell histiocytosis
- Evans syndrome
- Familial hemaphagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- EBV-assoc. hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- Osteopetrosis