A perfect match

Cord blood stored with CordBank will be an exact match for your child and has a 25% chance of being an exact match for his or her sibling.

Because it’s an exact match, there is no chance it will be rejected by your child’s system when its reinfused for medical treatment. Children who have access to their own cord blood for treatment can take advantage of therapies that cannot be carried out with sibling or unrelated cord blood.  There is no guarantee that a suitable match will be available in a public cord blood bank registry.

Expectant parents choose family cord blood banking to ensure that the cord blood will be available if needed. Review the a list of autologous transplants carried out internationally.

Lifetime odds of a stem cell transplant - 1 in 200

Cord blood is used for stem cell transplants, and you or anyone else in your family has lifetime odds of 1 in 200 of having a stem cell transplant.  On top of that, the odds are 1 in 300 that your child may have cerebral palsy, or 1 in 500 for type 1 diabetes, both of which are being treated with cord blood in clinical trials.

Cord blood has been saving lives since 1988

Cord blood transplants have been saving lives since 1988 when the first cord blood transplant took place in France , for a child with Fanconi’s Anaemia. In 1991, a transplant was performed in the United States on a child with chronic myelogenous leukemia.  Since then it has been used in over 20, 000 transplant for numerous childhood conditions. For a full list of the diseases that can be treated with your own cord blood (an autologous transplant) click here.

The next big advance in medicine

Newer therapies, using cord blood in clinical trials include cerebral palsy, Type 1 diabetes and brain injury. Current research shows that your own cord blood may play a part in the treatment of many other diseases and degenerative conditions including:

Spinal cord injury, Heart disease, Strokes, Multiple Sclerosis,Liver disease, Parkinsons disease