Benefits of Banking Cord Blood
Cord blood banking in Fall River focuses on the careful collection and long-term preservation of the blood found in a newborn’s umbilical cord.
This one-time option is only available at birth, yet it provides a potentially life-altering resource that may help fight serious, acute, and long-term illnesses. Families naturally want to protect their loved ones, and preserving stem cells is an effective way to plan for the future.
This advanced medical option allows your family early access to treatment possibilities for more than eighty conditions, including:
- Inherited Conditions
- Blood-Related Disorders
- Immune System Deficiencies
- Certain Types of Cancer
- And More
Keep in mind, this opportunity is available simply by choosing to store your baby’s cord blood with a cord blood bank located in the Fall River area.
Reach Out to the NECBB Team
Benefits of Cord Blood and Tissue Banking
Health
Saving these stem cells offers the potential to save your baby’s life, or another family member’s life.
Affordability
On a 20 year plan, cord blood banking breaks down to less fifty cents a day.
It's easy
The cord blood and cord tissue collection process is simple and painless to the baby and mother.
Access
Banking stem cells means no lengthy waits or expenses that come with finding a donor match in a public bank.
The Future
Your stem cells have the potential to be used in an increasing number of potential therapies.
Treatment Benefits of Banking Cord Blood in Fall River
Cord blood stem cells have been utilized in more than 35,000 transplants worldwide and have proven effective in treating over 80 different medical conditions. Their ability to address cancers, as well as metabolic, immune, and blood-related disorders, has made them a groundbreaking advancement in modern medicine.
Most of all, it is a great way that you can help save the life of your baby, or other family members, if something should happen.
Better Understanding of Cord Blood
Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord after a baby is born and the cord is cut. It is rich in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which are very similar to the stem cells found in bone marrow. The significance of cord blood lies in its ability to help rebuild the immune system. In other words, these stem cells can treat—and in some cases even replace—damaged or diseased cells in the body.
Many Uses of Umbilical Cord Blood
The most unique thing about cord blood is that it is the least controversial way of obtaining HSCs, while also remaining quick and painless. There are clear advantages to cord blood over bone marrow stem cells for both transplant recipients and their donors. First and foremost it is much easier to obtain, and has a higher chance of being a match for the recipient than bone marrow cells. Bone marrow transplants require a patient-donor match of 100%, whereas studies have shown that cord blood transplants still have a high success right with just a 67% match. Cord blood can be stored frozen so it is ready to use quickly and can treat patients with blood and immune diseases like lymphoma or leukemia.
Fall River Cord Blood Collection Process
The top question most people have is what the process is for cord blood collection. Your cord blood bank in Fall River will collect your cord blood and cord tissue through a simple process that involves the doctor delivering your child, with no risk for you. There are a few steps that we go through during the collection process.
1. Enroll with NECBB
This step should take place well before the birth of your child. Enroll with us and fill out our questionnaire. Once you do, we make sure we have all of the information we need. Then we just need the samples shipped to us post-birth.
2. Inform Your Doctor
Of course, your delivery doctor needs to be informed that you intend to collect your baby’s cord blood, so the proper precautions can take place to ensure it is done so safely and with no contamination.
3. Bring Your Collection Kit to the Birth
When you are getting together your bag of items to bring to the delivery, make sure your collection kit is included. Your doctor will use it to safely collect the cord and make sure that it will not be damaged when you ship it to us. Once it arrives here, we will process and store the cord stem cells.
Our experienced professionals can take it from there, and you can be assured the process will be in good hands. You will have enough to worry about on that day.
Possible Treatment Benefits of Cord Blood and Tissue Banking
- Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia
- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)
- Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
- Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
- Juvenile Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (JCML)
- JuvenileMyelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Prolymphocytic Leukemia
- Multiple Myeloma
- Acute Myelofibrosis
- Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia (Myelofibrosis)
- Aplastic Anemia (Severe)
- Essential Thrombocythemia
- Fanconi Anemia
- Myelodysplastic Syndrome
- Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
- Polycythemia Vera
- Pure Red Cell Aplasia
- Refractory Anemia with Excess Blasts (RAEB)
- Refractory Anemia with Excess Blasts in Transition (RAEB-T)
- Refractory Anemia with Ringed Sideroblasts (RARS)
- Sickle Cell Disease
- DiGeorge Syndrome
- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Diseases (SCID)
- Kostmann Syndrome (SCID)
- Omenn Syndrome (SCID)
- Gaucher Disease
- Hunter Syndrome (MPS-II)
- Hurler Syndrome (MPS-IH)
- Krabbe Disease
- Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome (MPS-VI)
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
- Mucolipidosis II (I-cell Disease)
- Niemann-Pick Disease
- Sanfilippo Syndrome (MPS-III)
- Scheie Syndrome (MPS-IS)
- Sly Syndrome (MPS-VII)
- Wolman Disease
We Are Here For You
The decision to bank the cord blood from your child’s birth might seem a little out there, and something that you need to think about long and hard. This is totally understandable, and we have seen it with a number of our clients who ultimately made the decision to bank their newborn’s cord blood and tissue.
We would be happy to explain anything you might be confused about and help you understand the true benefits of cord blood. We are here to help you and your family with cord blood banking in Fall River!