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UMBILICAL CORD STEM CELLS - A REALITY TODAY, A FUTURE FULL OF POSSIBILITIES
Leukemia and lymphomas
Cancer of the lymphocytes, a type of blood cell that forms part of the immune system, also called "cancer of the
blood".
• Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
• Acute myelogenous leukaemia
• Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
• Chronic myelogenous leukaemia
• Hodgkin lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia
Multiple myeloma and other plasma cell disorders
Cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow.
Severe aplastic anaemia and other marrow failure states
A group of disorders that result in the failure of normal functioning of cells in the bone marrow.
• Amegakaryocytosis/congenital thrombocytopenia
• Fanconi anaemia
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria(PNH)
• Pure red cell aplasia
• Severe aplastic anaemia
SCID and other inherited immune system disorders
Diseases in which children are born without an immune system or with an incomplete immune system.
• Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID, all sub-types)
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Hemoglobinopathies
Genetic defects that result in abnormal structure of one of the globin chains of the haemoglobin molecule that is
responsible for carrying of oxygen in the blood.
• Beta thalassemia major
• Sickle cell disease
DISEASES TREATED
