"Researchers in the US say they have been using stem cells to successfully treat genetic deseases in children..."
Source: BBC New
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Diseases and disorders
Examples of diseases and disorders treatable with cord blood stem cells:
  • Malignancies
    • Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
    • Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
    • Acute Non-Lymphocytic Leukemia
    • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
    • Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia
    • Ewing's Tumour-Sarcoma
    • Hodgkin's Disease
    • Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
    • MultipleMyeloma
    • Myelodysplastic syndrome
    • Neuroblastoma
    • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

  • Hemoglobinopathies & Blood Disorders
    • Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
    • Aplastic anaemia
    • Diamond-Blackfan anaemia
    • Congenital cytopenia
    • Evans' syndrome
    • Fanconi's syndrome
    • Kostmann's syndrome
    • Thalassemia

  • Inborn Errors of Metabolism
    • Adrenoleukodystrophy
    • AL amyloidosis
    • Bare lymphocyte syndrome
    • Dyskeratosis congenita
    • Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
    • Gaucher's disease
    • Gunther's disease
    • Hunter's syndrome
    • Hurler's syndrome
    • Inherited neuronal ceriod lipofuscinosis
    • Krabbe's disease
    • Langerhans cell histiocytosis
    • Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
    • Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
    • Osteopetrosis

  • Immunodeficiencies
    • Adrenosine deaminase deficiency
    • Chronic granulomatous disease
    • Severe combined immunodeficiency diseases
    • Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
    • X-linked lymphoproliferative disease

Each year more diseases and disorders are being added to the list of those that can be treated with stem cells.
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