Besides certain types of blood disorders, certain cancers, metabolic and immune system disorders may also be treated with stem cells from cord blood.

These are some of the diseases and disorders.

Treatable Malignant Diseases (Cancer):

   1. Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
   2. Acute Myelocytic Leukemia
   3. Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
   4. Chronic Myelogeneous Leukemia
   5. Juvenile Chronic Myelogeneous Leukemia
   6. Juvenile Mono-myelocytic Leukemia
   7. Myeloid/Natural Killer (NK) Cell Precursor Acute Leukemia
   8. Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
   9. Neuroblastoma
  10. Polymphocytic Leukemia
  11. Burkitt’s Lymphoma
  12. Hodgkin’s Disease
  13. Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
  14. Multiple Myeloma
  15. Mantle Cell Lymphoma
  16. Rhabdomyosarcoma
  17. Breast Cancer

Treatable Non-Malignant Diseases:

   1. Myelodysplastic syndromes
   2. Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia  (aka Myelofibrosis)
   3. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
   4. Blackfan-diamond Syndrome
   5. Cerebral X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
   6. Dyskeratosis Congenita
   7. Evans Syndrome
   8. Fanconi’s Anemia
   9. Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy (aka Krabbe Disease)
  10. Hunter Syndrome
  11. Hurler Syndrome
  12. Osteopetrosis
  13. Pure Red Cell Aplasia
  14. Reticular Dysgenesis
  15. Severe Aplastic Anemia
  16. Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID)
  17. Combined Immmunodeficiency
  18. Sickle Cell Anemia
  19. Thalassemia (Major)
  20. Thymic Dysplasia
  21. Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome

Clinical trials are being conducted for using stem cell therapy to treat the following:

   1. Brain Tumour
   2. Ovarian Cancer
   3. Renal Cell Carcinoma
   4. Small Cell Lung Cancer