The events in which a doctor may choose to go for cord blood transplant, depend on whether the doctor favors the transplant cells to come from the patient himself or from the donor. The doctors also decide which stem cells source is best suited to the patient, cord blood, peripheral blood or bone marrow.

The donated cord is especially useful for those patients who need a transplant quickly, because the stored cord blood is ready to use. Also, those patients who find it difficult to find a suitable bone marrow donor can also use the cord blood because cord blood need not match the patient's tissue type that closely. Even those patients with ethnically diverse backgrounds may also use the cord blood cells.

At the same time, donating the cord blood cells for public use or preserving it for family’s medical well-being is entirely your personal decision in the end - you can make an informed decision by talking to your doctor about it. Many a times the cord blood sample is not used for a transplant as there are too few stem cells in the cord blood. In that case, the cord blood is used for the research purposes so that the future treatment techniques may be perfected by the doctors.

Cryobanks is a leading umbilical cord blood preservation company which offers private cord blood storage program to the expecting families. Cryobanks is a pioneer in the field of cord blood stem cell storage and processing and it remains committed to serving families requiring the same for family or private use. The company intends to be the largest inventory of cord blood stem cells in India.