howardcoombs
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For a good, concise set of recommendations from American Academy of Pediatrics, I would point ppl to this:
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;119/1/165
Specifically the section titled recommendations. I've excerpted the points here, for full version follow the link above:
1) Cord blood donation should be discouraged when cord blood stored in a bank is to be directed for later personal or family use
2) Cord blood donation should be encouraged when the cord blood is stored in a bank for public use.
3) Because there are no scientific data at the present time to support autologous cord blood banking and given the difficulty of making an accurate estimate of the need for autologous transplantation and the ready availability of allogeneic transplantation, private storage of cord blood as "biological insurance" should be discouraged.
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;119/1/165
Specifically the section titled recommendations. I've excerpted the points here, for full version follow the link above:
1) Cord blood donation should be discouraged when cord blood stored in a bank is to be directed for later personal or family use
2) Cord blood donation should be encouraged when the cord blood is stored in a bank for public use.
3) Because there are no scientific data at the present time to support autologous cord blood banking and given the difficulty of making an accurate estimate of the need for autologous transplantation and the ready availability of allogeneic transplantation, private storage of cord blood as "biological insurance" should be discouraged.