Today's Proven Treatments

When you bank your child’s cord blood with ViaCord, your child immediately becomes eligible for autologous treatments. Generally speaking, treatments for cancers like neuroblastoma are autologous. Also, phase II clinical trials for cerebral palsy and type 1 diabetes require one’s own cord blood to participate. To date, 40% of ViaCord units released for medical treatments and clinical trials have been used by the children from whom they were collected.¹³

Most of the diseases on the proven treatment list are inherited genetic diseases. Typically, these treatments require a donor transplant, as from a sibling. If your child needs a donor, a family member is always the first-choice source. In fact, research shows that treatments using cord blood from a family member are about twice as successful as treatments using cord blood from a non-relative.^9a,17 To date, 60% of ViaCord units released have been used by siblings of the children from whom they were collected.¹³