10 6 16, at the 9th National Umbilical Cord Blood Conference held in Chengdu, more than 400 medical staff from hematology, obstetrics and children's rehabilitation departments and experts in umbilical cord blood research gathered together, * * * appealing to the society: I hope more families can understand the value of umbilical cord blood and store this precious resource well during childbirth.
It is understood that umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cell transplantation technology has been applied to the treatment of diseases including leukemia, aplastic anemia, thalassemia and lymphoma. At the same time, because umbilical cord blood contains a variety of stem cells and immune cells, it is also widely used in the field of regenerative medicine and immune cell therapy, and has broad clinical application space.
Self-storage of umbilical cord blood is very worthwhile.
Since 200 1 China launched the service of storing umbilical cord blood, the controversy about whether it is useful to store umbilical cord blood by itself has never stopped. Many people think that from past cases, it is unlikely that future children will use umbilical cord blood after it is preserved, and the money spent is likely to affect Shui Piao. Is it worth it?
Liu Fang, deputy director of the Department of Hematology, Chengdu BOE Hospital, believes that storing umbilical cord blood is "expensive and useless", and we should not only look at the past, but also look at the future.
Umbilical cord blood is a good source of hematopoietic stem cells. At present, mature hematopoietic stem cell therapy is used for leukemia, aplastic anemia and other diseases 1 1.
However, in the frontier fields such as regenerative medicine and immunotherapy, hematopoietic stem cells have made great progress in the treatment of cerebral palsy, autism and even malignant tumors, and have unique advantages. Perhaps in the near future, the application of hematopoietic stem cells in these fields will become commonplace, and the use of cord blood storage will be greatly expanded.