Cord Blood Stem Cells Support
Neuroblastoma Recovery

Frances Everall was born in 2002. Her parents saw the value cord blood banking could hold and decided to store her cord blood, although they never expected to need it.

When Frances was four years old, she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a rare type of childhood cancer that originates in early nerve cells. The family decided to pursue intensive treatment to give Frances the best chance possible.

She underwent six cycles of radiotherapy and high-dose chemotherapy, along with eight hours of surgery to remove a tumour. High-dose chemotherapy is used to destroy cancer cells throughout the body, but it also severely damages the healthy bone marrow cells responsible for making blood.

To help rebuild her immune system and restore her body’s ability to produce new blood cells after the intensive chemotherapy , Frances received a stem cell transplant using her own safely banked cord blood.

In 2008, Frances went into remission. Today, she is a healthy survivor who has successfully overcome the disease.
 

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References

1. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancers-in-general/cancer-questions/neuroblastoma
2. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10674495
3. http://www.lennoxccf.org.uk/facts-and-statistics.html

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