Diseases Treated

Full List of FDA-Approved Cord Blood Treatments

LEUKEMIAS, LYMPHOMAS and BONE MARROW CANCERS: Cancers of the blood cells that make up the immune system.

Acute Lymphoblastic/Lympocytic Leukemia (ALL)
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia
Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML)
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Juvenile Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (JCML)
Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
Multiple Myeloma
Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Myeloid/Natural Killer (NK) Cell Precursor Acute Leukemia
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Plasma Cell Leukemia
Prolymphocytic Leukemia
Refractory Anemia (RA)
Refractory Anemia with Ringed Sideroblasts (RARS)
Refractory Anemia with Excess Blasts (RAEB)
Refractory Anemia with Excess Blasts in Transformation (RAEB-T)
Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia

SOLID TUMORS: Cancers of cells from organs of the body.

Ewing Sarcoma
Medulloblastoma
Nephroblastoma (Wilms Tumor)
Neuroblastoma
Retinoblastoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Thymoma (Thymic Carcinoma)

ANEMIAS: Diseases causing too few blood cells to be made.

Aplastic Anemia (Severe)
Congenital Cytopenia
Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia
Fanconi Anemia
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)

INHERITED RED CELL ABNORMALITIES: Genetic diseases resulting in red blood cells that do not work correctly.

Beta Thalassemia Major (also known as Cooley’s Anemia)
Blackfan-Diamond Anemia
Pure Red Cell Aplasia
Sickle Cell Disease

INHERITED PLATELET ABNORMALITIES: Genetic diseases resulting in platelets that are not able to correctly form clots.

Amegakaryocytosis / Congenital Thrombocytopenia
Glanzmann Thrombasthenia

IMMUNE SYSTEM DISORDERS: Genetic or acquired diseases which result in white blood cells that are not able to fight off infections.

Acute Myelofibrosis
Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia (Myelofibrosis)
Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome
Cartilage-Hair Hypoplasia
Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
Chronic Active Epstein Barr Virus
Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Congenital Neutropenia
DiGeorge Syndrome
Dyskeratosis Congenita
Essential Thrombocythemia
Evans Syndrome
Gunther’s Disease (Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria)
IKK Gamma Deficiency (NEMO Deficiency)
Immune Dysregulation, Polyendocrinopathy, Enteropathy, X-linked (IPEX) Syndrome
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
Kostmann Syndrome
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (Histiocytosis X)
Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency
Lymphoproliferative Disorders (LPD)
Lymphoproliferative Disorder, X-linked (also known as Epstein-Barr Virus Susceptibility)
Myelokathexis
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Neutrophil Actin Deficiency
Omenn Syndrome (SCID)
Pearson’s Syndrome
Polycythemia Vera
Reticular Dysgenesis (SCID)
SCID with Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency (ADA-SCID)
SCID with absence of T & B Cells
SCID with absence of T cells, Normal B Cells
SCID with Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase Deficiency
SCID which is X-linked
Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome
Systemic Amyloidosis
Systemic Mastocytosis
Thymic dysplasia
Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
X-linked Agammaglobulinemia
X-linked Hyper-IgM Syndrome
X-linked Lymphoproliferative Disorder

INHERITED METABOLIC DISORDERS: Genetic diseases that prevent the body from correctly processing normal substances in the body or diet.

Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)/Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN)
Fucosidosis
Gaucher Disease
Hunter’s Syndrome (MPS-II)
Hurler’s Syndrome (MPS-IH)
Krabbe Disease (Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy)
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrom
Mannosidosis
Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome (MPS-VI)
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
Morquio Syndrome (MPS-IV)
Mucolipidosis II (I-cell Disease)
Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS)
Niemann-Pick Disease
Neruonal Ceroid Liopfuscinosis (Batten Disease)
Osteopetrosis
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Sandhoff Disease
Sanfilippo Syndrome (MPS-III)
Scheie Syndrome (MPS-IS)
Sly Syndrome, Beta-Glucuronidase Deficiency (MPS-VII)
Tay-Sachs Disease
Wolman Disease
X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy