WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF UCB STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION?
In 1988, the first cord blood transplantation was performed in Paris, France on a five year old boy with Fanconi’s Syndrome, or Fanconi’s Anemia, using his sister’s UCB stem cells. To date he remains disease free and very healthy! In 1989, the first cord blood stem cell transplant occurred in the United States, at the University of Cincinnati. In 1991 a transplant was performed on a child with chronic myelogenous leukemia. These two transplants were highly successful, thereby “setting the stage” for cord blood transplants in situations where bone marrow transplants had traditionally been used. In 1992, the first private storage of a baby’s UCB occurred. In 1993, the UCB Bank at the New York Blood Center was founded by Dr. Pablo Rubenstein. This is the largest public cord blood bank in the United States; with over 1,000 cord blood transplant units used to date. In 1995, in the Lancet Report, Wagner and his colleagues studied cord blood transplants with “related recipients”. The results
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- WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF UCB STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION?
