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Article: National Marrow Donor Program marks 3,000th unrelated cord blood transplant, more support is needed to help growing demand for transplants.
- Article from:
- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- June 25, 2009
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Umbilical cord blood transplants are significantly increasing among patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases, according to the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), which has now facilitated more than 3,000 such procedures, double the number just two years ago. But more support is needed - including increased funding and participation in public banking - to help all patients in need of a transplant.
The use of donated cord blood in transplant therapy - little known even a decade ago - offers an additional option for patients without a matched donor in their family. Physicians recognize that cord blood is a source of the rich, ...