Each child comes in the world with a gift from the nature, with a “life insurance”, with a quantity of “spare parts of cells” which if are preserved they will contribute for the health and its long life. (Roger Schort 2005)

Each child is endued with a supply of stem cells which can be used at some time for the safekeeping of its health, the improvement of quality or the extension of its life.

The birth of your child is a unique chance to preserve this valuable material. Do not take away from him/her this chance. The possibility to use the stem cells which are cryo-preserved at birth,  nowadays it comes up to 1/400 for the child itself.

The use of stem cells apart from the child itself can also be extended to the parents, the siblings, as long as the tissue-compatibility is checked. So the up-to-date possibility for the graft to be used for a member of the family comes up to 1/200.

We have to notice that according to nowadays medical data the possibility which is bigger to 1/250 although is small can not be considered as negligible.

ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts) 2005 106: Abstract 1330
http://www.parentsguidecordblood.com/content/usa/medical/medmotiv.shtml?navid=20

This possibility has been calculated considering the nowadays approved applications without including the applications of regenerating medicine which are in the phase of clinical trials.

It is known that in the umbilical cord blood there is a category of cells which can be multiplied and transformed, so that they can replace cells of any tissue (Koegler et al 2003).  The geometrical increase of the approved publications related to new applications admits the prediction of use all of the samples which are cryo-preserved.
For this reason our company thinks for sure that almost all the samples of the stem cells which are cryo-preserved today in liquid nitrogen one day in the future will be asked  for use, consequently it takes care so that the thousands of children whose grafts are kept in our facilities, one day will be grateful to their parents for their precaution.

Biohellenika recommends to the expectant parents before they decide to keep the stem cells from the umbilical cord blood and before they choose the company for the cryo-preservation of the valuable material, to visit for their information, independent web-sites especially the ones which were created by parents or unions of parents abroad such as: www.parentsguidecordblood.com and www.cordblooddonor.org.

Read about pro and con of the umbilical cord blood preservation in:
http://www.parentsguidecordblood.com/content/usa/medical/medmotiv.shtml?navid=20

The Cord Blood forum (http://www.cordbloodforum.org/index_flash.html) contains information of the up-to-date medical application of the cells which are coming from the umbilical cord blood.

The umbilical cord blood contains the biggest quantity of any other source of stem cells, can be collected at the natural birth but at the cesarean too, and it is once in a lifetime opportunity to collect these cells. The procedure for the collection begins just after the end of the labor and the cut of the umbilical cord, so it can do no harm mother or the baby. The collection of the umbilical cord blood is performed by puncturing the umbilical cord after local antisepsis. From this blood stem cells are separated, frozen and kept in liquid nitrogen conditions in minus 196˚ C indefinitely.
The stem cells can be used for the therapy of over 50 diseases.