Why Store Cord Blood? What is Cord Blood? What are Stem Cells? Why is Cord Blood Controversial? What is the Potential for Cord Blood? What Diseases Does Cord Blood Currently Treat? What are Potential Future Uses? What is the Likelihood We Will Need the Baby's Cord Blood? Will my Doctor Know How to Collect It?

What are Potential Future Uses?

Cord blood research is an extensive field that holds a great deal of promise for the future. Cord blood stems cells may be used to treat many different types of disease, some of them relatively common.

Diseases that can appear later in life and diminish its quality, including Alzheimer's, heart disease, and strokes, could be helped by stem cell research. Clinical trials are already in progress, testing the potential benefits and side effects of therapy using stem cells.

Stem Cell Research Could Extend Life

Cord blood is an essential source of stem cells. Stem cell research is dependent upon this resource, which has the potential for treating disease, thereby extending life. Banking cord blood makes this essential resource available for your future use. Cord blood research has the potential to save our lives and the lives of the people we love.

Cord Blood Research could find treatments for:

• Alzheimer's Disease
• Breast Cancer
• Crohn's Disease
• Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell carcinoma)
• Kidney Failure
• Liver Disease
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinson's Disease
• Scleroderma
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosis
• Strokes
• Autism
• Glaucoma

Storing your baby's cord blood may save his or her life one day.

Cord blood treatments of disease in use today.

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