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The Diseases Currently Treated with Cord Blood Stem Cells
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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
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The Diseases in the Future That Might Be Treated with Cord Blood Stem Cells
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- 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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This is not a Viacord sponsored webpage.
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