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The issue of who owns cord blood is debated. Some suggest that the cord blood sample is the property of the child on the basis that it is developmentally, biologically and genetically part of the child.
ing to Cell Trials Data, a provider of data on clinical trials of advances cell therapy, cord blood banking rates are highest in the US, at 3% of births each year.
A disadvantage of cord blood is that it does not contain many stem cells. Units from several donors can be combined to increase the number of stem cells if a transplant is needed for an adult. What is an autologous transplant? In an autologous transplant, the cord blood collected at birth is used by that same child.
The benefits of cord blood Patients without an available donor are more often of minority race or ethnicity. Cord blood donations often help someone with ancestry that is similar to the donors background.
Although commercial cord blood banks often bill their services as biological insurance against future diseases, the blood doesnt often get used. One study says the chance that a child will use their cord blood over their lifetime ranges from 1 in 400 to 1 in 200,000.
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Hospitals collect a cord blood unit (CBU) from the umbilical cord after birth and ship it to a cord blood bank. A cord blood bank processes, cryopreserves (freezes) and stores CBUs. If a CBU is a match for a patient, the cord blood bank ships the CBU to the transplant center for the patient.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) says that the chance that a child or family member would develop a condition that could be treated with autologous umbilical cord blood is low, and the routine storage of umbilical cord blood as biological insurance against future disease isnt
Some disadvantages of cord blood banking include the following: Cord blood does not contain many stem cells, which means that adults needing a transplant will require cord blood stem cells from multiple donors. People have to pay a fee for storing cord blood in a private bank, which could prove costly.

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