Patients with certain acquired or genetic diseases are sometimes treated with irradiation and/or chemotherapy to destroy their diseased or defective cells. However, because this treatment also destroys normal blood-producing stem cells in the bone marrow, these cells must be replaced in order to restore blood cell production. Increasingly transplant physicians are opting to use stem cells obtained from the patients own cord blood or a family member to replace the cells in the bone marrow.

The first step in the process of stem cell transplantation is the collection of stem cells from a patient or a donor. When a patient's own stem cells are used, as is the case with umbilical cord blood processing and storage, they are frozen until needed.

 

The Insception Cord Blood Program is committed to the highest possible quality standards to ensure that a stored cord blood stem cell product is rich in viable stem cells. The higher the quality of the sample, the better the transplant outcome will be. Our continued excellence should provide the confidence that you have the best chance of having a positive outcome should your sample ever be needed.

The tables below highlight those samples that have been released for transplant and cellular therapies. All of the transplants listed were performed at Toronto’s prominent Hospital for Sick Children. 

2007

Male, 8

Years

Joseph

Brant

Male,11

Years

Male,11

Years