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It's good you did that. We passed on doing it for both our daughters (11 & 7). In hindsight after my younger daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia the decision n
by gautamdivgi 5y ago
It's good you did that. We passed on doing it for both our daughters (11 & 7). In hindsight after my younger daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia the decision not to do it wasn't really good. She's in remission and fine now. But you never know when treatments would be facilitated by the stem cells.
- pkukp9 5y agoI'm so sorry about your daughter. Did she ever find a cord blood donor?
- gautamdivgi 5y agoThe regular chemo treatment was good enough. For childhook Leukemia the remission rates are almost approaching a cure. So in a sense we were lucky.
- pkukp9 5y agoI'm glad!
- tempestn 5y agoI've heard of other services that will extract and then culture stem cells from milk teeth or even from bone marrow. Have halfway considered it, but making a special trip and expense to get bone marrow extracted on the off chance it'll be useful in the future is a bit tough to convince oneself to do...
- jnsie 5y agoNothing to add except I'm glad your daughter is doing better!
- cinntaile 5y agoSaving your youngest daughter's stemcells might not have done much, since they likely were "contaminated" with very early stages disease already. Your oldest daughter's stemcells would have had a 1/4 chance of being compatible, but maybe that was what you meant. The chances of needing stem cell treatment for your children are not that high though, so I don't think you should feel bad about not doing it. I'm glad it worked out in the end, I wish her a good life!