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Thousands of units of umbilical cord blood are stored daily at cord blood banks worldwide. Primary stem cells from the cord blood are used to treat many diseases, including hereditary diseases, congenital defects and various types of cancer. Many families who stored cord blood units saved the lives of their children.
Cord blood is blood collected from the umbilical cord of the newborn after birth; this blood is a source of primary stem cells, Cord blood is used for treatment of many diseases, including diseases that were treated in the past with bone marrow stem cells.
Umbilical stem cells are used today as a routine therapy in bone marrow and stem cell transplantations, as well as in the treatment of more than 70 different diseases, and the number of cord blood stem cell transplantations is increasing. These transplantations have been found to be more successful in all aspects, and the percentage of patients recovering from their disease with this type of transplantation is considerably higher, as compared to transplantations of stem cells from bone marrow.
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