The Da Vinci Code movie download Several recent stories about successful cord blood stem cell treatments in children afflicted with cerebral palsy provides hope for other families.
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But, where does a family turn when the cord blood wasn’t banked?
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One Missouri family is turning to China. Beike Biotech, a company based in China, supplies adult stem cells for cerebral palsy treatment, and treatment of other diseases. The cord blood is obtained from the Chinese government after it has been collected from umbilical cords in Chinese hospitals. Kirshner Ross-Vaden, a registered nurse and vice president of the foreign patient division of Beike Biotech, said the company has about 40 patients each month who travel to China to receive the treatment.
This treatment is not available in the U.S. and many experts urge caution for these kinds of treatments, even the clinical trials conducted stateside.
"The data isn’t there at all for cord blood with cerebral palsy," said Mindy Aisen, a physician and director and chief executive officer of the Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation.
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"I would never advise someone to go to China, period, period, period. You’re injecting a mixture of things when injecting cord blood intravenously. It’s not clear if anything is crossing the blood-brain barrier," Aisen said, referring to a barrier of cells that lines the walls of blood vessels in the brain, which can block substances from passing.
