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The Diseases UCB Treats

The Diseases Currently Treated
with Cord Blood Stem Cells

CANCERS

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)
  • Burkitt's lymphoma
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
  • Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia (JCML)
  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
  • Liposarcoma
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Langerhan's cell histiocytosis

BONE MARROW FAILURE SYNDROMES

  • Severe aplastic anemia
  • Diamond-Blackfan anemia
  • Dyskeratosis congenita
  • Fanconi anemia
  • Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
  • Kostmann's syndrome

HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES/BLOOD DISORDERS

  • Sickle-cell anemia
  • ß-thalassemia (Cooley's anemia)

INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM

  • Adrenoleukodystrophy
  • Batten disease (inherited neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis)
  • Gunther disease
  • Hunter syndrome
  • Hurler syndrome
  • Krabbe disease (globoid cell leukodystrophy)
  • Lesch-Nyhan disease
  • Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome

IMMUNODEFICIENCES

  • Omenn's syndrome
  • Severe combined immune deficiency (SCID and SCID-ADA)
  • Reticular dysplasia
  • Thymic dysplasia
  • Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
  • X-linked lymphoproliferative disease
  • Leukocyte adhesion deficiency

OTHER DISEASES

  • Evans syndrome
  • Familial hemaphagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
  • EBV-assoc. hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
  • Osteopetrosis
The Diseases in the Future That
Might Be Treated with Cord Blood
Stem Cells
  • Stroke
  • Certain autoimmune disorders (ex: Diabetes, Lupus)
  • Neurological disorders (ex: ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy)
  • Muscular/cartilage diseases
  • Heart Disease (in clinical trials now - See Viacord's Research Update)
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