“Community stem cell banking helps people with untreatable chronic diseases access stem cells from the community pool”

Cord Blood Pool Banking helps provide your family with unique usage and retrieval benefits while accessing preserved Cord Blood units for stem cell transplants.

For the first time in the world, community cell banking has been launched by MyCord, Gurgaon. They allow their members to share preserved umbilical cord Stem Cells from its cord blood pool bank. It is the most precise way of banking the umbilical cords for clinical use.

Benefits of MyCord Pool Banking

• More than 95% blood-related diseases are treatable by donor cord from the available in the same ethnic pool.
• Community-based cord blood banking offers the highest probability of finding matching stem cells from the community banking.
• Less than 5% blood-related diseases can be possibly treated with are able to treat by your own cord in comparison addition to the above 95%.
• HLA matches to find an allogeneic matched cord for transplant is done before storing the sample.
• For every cord that is stored in the bank, a best-matched cord is provided from the pool.
• Family benefits the most: Immediate family members of the baby whose stem cells are preserved at the time of birth with MyCord Pool Banking program can enjoy the benefits of stem cell transplant therapies.
• No cost for accessing stem cells: Community members don’t have to pay for accessing stem cells for transplant therapies.

How does MyCord pool banking work?

• The parents preserve their child’s umbilical cord at the time of birth stem cells with MyCord & thus also join the community.
• These stored stem cells form a collective common pool of cord blood stem cell units.
• The preserved cord blood stem cell units can be accessed by any member of the community whenever needed.

This type of storage and sharing helps member parents and siblings to access stem cells from the community pool, thus providing a comprehensive family benefit for stem cell-related treatments. Additionally, community cord banking, unlike over private and public stem cell banking, provides collective family benefit, which is extended to all immediate family members of the donor infant.

Umbilical cord blood banking is the next big thing in medical science. With its help doctors are now able to treat previously untreatable chronic diseases through stem cell treatment therapies.  The best thing about umbilical cord blood banking is that it increases the chances of procuring allogenically matched umbilical cords, leading to successful treatment of chronic diseases for the members.

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