Private Banking
With Private Cord Blood Banks, your baby’s cord blood is always available for your child and immediate family members to take advantage of when needed. If your child or a family member is suffering from a life-threatening condition, such as lymphoma, leukemia, sickle-cell anemia, or one of the 80 diseases and conditions that can be effectively treated with cord blood stem cells, then private cord blood banking may provide your family with the best chance of survival, recovery, and a renewed quality of life.
Private banking of both cord blood and cord tissue will provide your family with the most complete scope of future treatment options
Public Donation
Public Cord Blood banks provide a valuable service by supplying research facilities with cord blood samples that can be used to develop life saving medical treatments. Furthermore, cord blood from public banks can also be used by compatible recipients in the general public to treat various medical conditions.
However, it should be noted that most public banks do not engage in long-term storage, and 80% of all publicly donated cord blood samples are not stored for future transplantation.1 This means that if a family member falls ill with a life-threatening disease or condition, there is a high probability that your child’s cord blood will not be available to you when needed for a transplant.
1 Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation. (n.d.). Retrieved 2016-31-May from PGCB: Cord Blood Introduction: Cord Blood Infographic:http://parentsguidecordblood.org/en/cord-blood-infographic