Treatable Diseases and Future Uses of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells
Today, cord blood stems cells are used in the treatment of over 70 life-threatening diseases, including a wide range of cancers, genetic diseases, immune system deficiencies, and blood disorders (see list below).
To learn more about potential future uses for cord blood stem cells click here.
Cancers
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
- Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- Burkitt's lymphoma
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Langerhan's cell histiocytosis
- Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
- Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
- Amegarakyocytic thrombocytopenia
- Autoimmune neutropenia (severe)
- Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
- Cyclic neutropenia
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia
- Evan's syndrome
- Fanconi anemia
- Glanzmann's disease
- Juvenile dermatomyositis
- Kostmann's syndrome
- Red cell aplasia
- Schwachman syndrome
- Severe aplastic anemia
- Congenital sideroblastic anemia
- Thrombocytopenia with absent radius (TAR syndrome)
- Dyskeratosis congenita
Blood Disorders/Hemoglobinpathies
- Sickle-cell anemia (hemoglobin SS)
- HbSC disease
- Sickle βo Thalassemia
- α-thalassemia major (hydrops fetalis)
- β-thalassemia major (Cooley's anemia)
- β-thalassemia intermedia
- E-βo thalassemia
- E-β+ thalassemia
Metabolic Disorders
- Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Gaucher's disease (infantile)
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Krabbe disease (globoid cell leukodystrophy)
- Gunther disease
- Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Hurler syndrome
- Hurler-Scheie syndrome
- Hunter syndrome
- Sanfilippo syndrome
- Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
- Mucolipidosis Type II, III
- Alpha mannosidosis
- Neumann Pick Syndrome, type A and B
- Sandoff Syndrome
- Tay Sachs Disease
- Batten disease (inherited neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis)
- Lesch-Nyhan disease
Immunodeficiencies
- Ataxia telangectasia
- Chronic granulomatous disease
- DiGeorge syndrome
- IKK gamma deficiency
- Immune dysregulation polyendocrineopathy X-linked
- Mucolipidosis, Type II
- Myelokathesis
- X-linked immunodeficiency
- Severe combined immunodeficiency
- Adenosine desaminase deficiency
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
- X-linked agammaglobulinemia
- X-linked lymphoproliferative disease
- Omenn's syndrome
- Reticular dysplasia
- Thymic dysplasia
- Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
Other