Cord blood stem cell treatment has come a long way, especially in the fields of blood disorders, regenerative medicine, and disease treatment. Further, the number of overall clinical studies evaluating stem cell therapies now numbers in the hundreds.

In many cases, the treatments offer a less invasive replacement to traditional bone marrow transplants. They also offer a much lower risk of host rejection compared to marrow transplants.

Check out the following table for a more comprehensive look at the treatments in place today. First we’ll look at treatments where cord blood from a brother or sister was used (allogeneic). Then we will look at treatments derived directly from a patient’s own stem cells (autologous).