Cord Blood Transplants
If you, or a loved one is in need of a bone marrow or cord blood transplant, but immediate family cannot provide a good match, doctors have the option of searching the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) registry for an allogeneic transplant (donation outside family) Patients needing bone marrow or cord blood transplants often turn to family members in hopes of a perfect match. However, 70-75% of them fail to find a suitable match within their own gene pool.
