WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF UCB TRANSPLANTATION?
• Easily obtained after delivery without any risks to mother or baby • Can easily be stored for personal use (private banking), or donated for others to use (public banking) • More accessible for ethnic minorities for whom bone-marrow donors are frequently difficult to locate • Possibility of infectious disease contamination is greatly reduced • Less stringent HLA-matching required for transplantation use • Significantly fewer instances of Graft versus Host disease, as well as the chances of side effects, after transplantation • Biological insurance in an inexpensive form.
