List of Treatable Diseases using Stem Cells

This post is in continuation with using stem cells to treat diseases.Here in this article we are providing you the list of various kinds of diseases which can be treated using stem cells or on which clinical trials are going on .The success in these trials will prove as a gift for the group of people who are suffering from various deadly diseases.

Cord blood stem cell transplants have already changed and saved thousands of lives around the world.They have already been used to treat more than 75 diseases, including numerous maligencies, anemia's, inherited metabolic disorders and deficiencies of the immune system.

Below is the table of diseases for the treatment of which stem cells has been used:

Fig : Blood Related disorders for the treatment of which Cord blood cells has been used.

Apart from the above, there are many other disorders and syndromes which are being treated using stem cells, the list is as follows :

• Myelodysplastic Syndromes (Eg. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Thrombocythemia etc.)
• Inherited Metabolic Disorders (Eg. Mucopolysaccharidoses, Gaucher's Disease etc.)
• Histiocytic Disorders (Eg. Histiocytosis-X, Hemophagocytosis etc.)
• Inherited Immune System Disorders (Eg. Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency, Kostmann Syndrome)
• Inherited Platelet Abnormalities (Eg. Congenital Thrombocytopenia/Amegakaryocytosis)
• Plasma cells disorders (Eg. Multiple Myeloma, Plasma cell leukemia etc)
• Other Maligencies (Eg. Breast Cancer, Wing Sarcoma, Neuroblastoma, Renal Cell Carcinoma)

So far I have discussed about the treatable disease, apart from which there are many other diseases on which clinical trial is going on, using umbilical cord blood.

Reference: http://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v71/n4-2/fig_tab/pr201153t1.html

If the trials will be successful than cord blood banking will rise extensively and proves to be a boon in the field of medical science.