Proven Cord Blood Uses

Nearly 80 Proven Uses

Nearly 80 medical conditions can use hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) collected from cord blood in a stem cell transplant to help rebuild a healthy blood and immune system in patients. Banking cord blood does not guarantee that treatment will work and only a doctor can determine when it can be used.

Blood Disorders

E-β+ thalassemia
E-βo thalassemia
HbSC disease
Sickle βo Thalassemia
Sickle-cell anemia (hemoglobin SS)
α-thalassemia major (hydrops fetalis)
β-thalassemia intermedia
β-thalassemia major (Cooley's anemia)

Cancers

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Biphenotypic Leukemia
Burkitt's lymphomaChronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
Hodgkin's lymphoma Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
Mixed Lineage Leukemia
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
Myelofibrosis
Neuroblastoma
Non-Burkitt’s lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Bone Marrow
Failure Syndromes

Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
Autoimmune neutropenia (severe)
Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
Congenital sideroblastic anemia
Cyclic Neutropenia
Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Dyskeratosis congenita
Evan's syndrome
Fanconi anemia
Glanzmann's disease
Kostmann's syndrome (severe congenital neutropenia)
Pure Red Cell Aplasia
Severe aplastic anemia
Shwachman syndrome
Thrombocytopenia with absent radius (TAR syndrome)

Metabolic
Disorders

Adrenoleukodystrophy Gaucher's disease (infantile)
Alpha mannosidosis
Fucosidosis
Gaucher's disease (infantile)
Gunther disease (congenital erythropoitic porphyria)
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
Hunter syndrome
Hurler syndrome
Hurler-Scheie syndrome
Krabbe disease (globoid cell leukodystrophy)
Lesch-Nyhan disease
Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
Metachromatic leukodystrophy
Mucolipidosis Type II, III
Niemann Pick Syndrome, type A and B
Sandhoff Syndrome
Sanfilippo syndrome
Sly syndrome
Tay-Sachs Disease
Wolman Syndrome

Immunodeficiencies

Adenosine deaminase deficiency
Ataxia telangiectasia
Chronic granulomatous disease
Complete IFN-γ Receptor 2 Deficiency
DiGeorge syndrome
IKK gamma deficiency
Immune dysregulation polyendocrineopathy
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
LRBA deficiency
Myelokathexis X-linked immunodeficiency
Omenn's syndrome
Reticular dysplasia
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
Thymic dysplasia
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
X-linked agammaglobulinemia
X-linked lymphoproliferative disease
X-linked Mucolipidosis, Type II