7 conditions - Heel-prick: CH, CAH, G6PD, CF, PKU, Galactosemia

Statistics suggest that the probability of being diagnosed of a condition treatable by stem cells is 5% for an individual. A family of eight members that includes the child, child’s sibling, child’s parents and child’s grandparents cumulatively carries a 40% chance of any family member being diagnosed of a condition treatable by stem cells. Hence with such high probability, community stem cell banking can come to your rescue to providing you a free access to a large inventory of stem cells when needed.

The baby may require its own cord blood stem cells mostly for conditions that may be diagnosed during the initial 2 years of age. Hence your baby’s stem cells are preserved with exclusive rights to access only by you during the first 2 years. It will be floated in the community only after this period. Also your baby will receive an enhanced protection through community stem cell bank for accessing community donor stem cells for treatments requiring matching donor stem cell units.

Like blood our body's stem cell also regenerate continuously, so during need own stem cells can be easily retrieved from peripheral blood or blood marrow.

Actor Lisa Ray did not have the facility to preserve her umbilical cord stem cells at birth.However to treat her Multiple Myeloma-a type of blood cancer, her peripheral blood & bone marrow stem cells came to her rescue and gave her a new lease of life.Thus sharing your baby's cord blood stem cellshas no risk but benefits, since it gives you access to stem cells from donors to treat all conditions treatable by stem cells

The current approved medical conditions requiring patient’s own stem cells need not be necessarily from the umbilical cord. Stem cells from other sources such as bone marrow are also widely used today for such indications. For instance, actor, model and cancer graduate Ms Lisa Ray had used her own bone marrow stem cells & was successfully treated for Multiple Myeloma.

Also, considering many factors, the chances of your baby’s own umbilical cord stem cells being released to another community member is very low and in all probability you may be able to access your own baby’s cord blood stem cells if available.

Yes. Not only your baby but your family will also continue to have access to community donor stem cells during the duration of the contract with unlimited access to matching stem cell units.

As a community member, you will have unlimited free access to matching stem cells from the community stem cell bank for the child, siblings, parents and grandparents and there are not additional payment towards cost of stem cells. All you need to do is upgrade to Community Stem cell banking by making the initial upgrade payment.