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Cord blood is a lifeline in more ways than one
Cord blood is a valuable graft source for clinicians to consider early in the search process, especially when you have a patient with a low
likelihood of a fully matched related or unrelated donor. With greater matching 昀氀exibility to help overcome HLA barriers, cord blood can
extend the availability of transplant to more patients.
“For me, the number one bene昀椀t of cord blood
transplantation is the marked decrease in chronic
graft-versus-host disease that cord blood patients
have after their transplant.
That is probably the number one, two and three
reason why we are such big fans of cord blood.”
J O NATHAN G U TMAN , M D
D I R ECTO R , ALLO G E N E I C STE M C E LL TR AN S PL ANT
U C H E ALTH U N I V E RS IT Y O F CO LO R AD O H OS PITAL
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