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The need for cord blood banking

With the advancement of medical science, parents are saving their umbilical cord and placental blood after childbirth so that any future medical necessity of the child or the close relative can be fought effectively. More and more parents are taking an interest in cord blood storage and increasing the scope of treatments of many illnesses that have no other medications and may become terminal illness otherwise. Stem cell banking is nothing the process of collection of the placenta or the umbilical cord blood, processing it and depleting the red blood cells (RBC) and doing cryogenic freezing. Stem cures diseases like leukemia (blood cancer), Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, solid tumors and autism and spinal cord problems. It regenerates the cells when transplanted and gives a new lease of life to the patient. There is no danger to the mother or the child to collect and preserve the cord blood as it is collected post delivery. It prevents the mother from gettin...