Breakthrough in Treating Leukemia, Lymphoma with Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells

The Loyola University Medical Center has found from a study that blood from umbilical cords have stem cells that are able to help save people suffering with Leukemia and Lymphoma. They have also found that growing these cells in a lab before actually placing them within a patient gives them a better chance at surviving. The blood cells of the patients that go through chemotherapy die along with the cancerous ones, and undergoing a transplant infusion of immature stem cells can help remake the stores of healthy ones. Stem cells are made in the bone marrow. Most of the time they are donated by loved ones or those who are able. A new technology titled StemEx, which helps develop stem cells from blood of an umbilical cord, was also looked at and experimented with.

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