7 things you should know about cord blood banking
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Jamie Page and her husband, from Schaumburg, Illinois had been given information about cord blood banking by her doctor, but because neither of them had any family history of any medical condition, it wasn't something they considered. Yet after her mom urged her to watch a report on TV about it, they had a change of heart and knew they would regret not doing it if they ever needed it - which is exactly what happened.

Just a few weeks after their daughter Harlow was born, doctors found a grapefruit-sized mass blocking her kidney.  They had never seen anything like it, so they didn't know how to treat it or what the prognosis would be. Three rounds of chemotherapy completely eliminated the tumor, but because it was so aggressive, and it was an unknown type of cancer, doctors decided that a stem cell transplant was the best option to prevent it from coming back.

Today, Harlow is a happy, cancer-free 4-year-old girl. "It's luck- it's fate that we happened to hear about this and to do it, and we're lucky enough to have it," Page said.


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