Patients who receive umbilical cord blood transplants for blood cancers now live equally long regardless of their race, new research from UVA Cancer Center shows.
University of Virginia Health SystemOct 1 2024
Black children, however, were more likely to suffer severe "graft-versus-host" disease, a complication of cord blood transplantation that can cause organ damage and severe infections. Cord blood is harvested from the umbilical cord and placenta after birth, meaning it is readily available. The researchers found that matched or mismatched cord blood worked equally well for transplant recipients. They also determined matching the race of the patient and donor was less important than the total number of cord blood cells transplanted – the more, the better.
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