PMID- 18459926
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080701
LR  - 20210107
IS  - 0025-729X (Print)
IS  - 0025-729X (Linking)
VI  - 188
IP  - 9
DP  - 2008 May 5
TI  - Umbilical cord blood banking: public good or private benefit?
PG  - 533-5
AB  - Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an accepted curative therapy 
      for many malignant and non-malignant conditions affecting children and adults. 
      Where possible, stem cells for HSCT are provided by human leukocyte antigen 
      (HLA)-matched, related donors. Only 30% of patients have a suitable matched 
      donor; for other patients, donors are sought from bone marrow registries or 
      public umbilical cord blood (UCB) banks. While public UCB banks have been 
      established to support transplant programs in Australia and internationally, 
      parents also have the option of storing their child's UCB in a private commercial 
      UCB bank for personal or family use. In contrast with public UCB banks, there is 
      little social or medical justification for private UCB banking, as it provides no 
      benefit to the community and little benefit to parents (other than reassurance 
      and amelioration of regret), due to the very low likelihood of requiring 
      autologous UCB later in life. Should UCB prove to be beneficial for tissue repair 
      or replacement in the management of degenerative disorders, such as diabetes and 
      Parkinson's disease, then a stronger case may be made in support of commercial 
      banking of UCB for personal use. This may have a major impact on public UCB 
      programs.
FAU - Samuel, Gabrielle N
AU  - Samuel GN
AD  - Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, 
      NSW. gsamuel@med.usyd.edu.au
FAU - Kerridge, Ian H
AU  - Kerridge IH
FAU - O'Brien, Tracey A
AU  - O'Brien TA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - Australia
TA  - Med J Aust
JT  - The Medical journal of Australia
JID - 0400714
SB  - IM
CIN - Med J Aust. 2008 Nov 17;189(10):599; author reply 599-600. PMID: 19012566
MH  - Australia
MH  - Blood Banks/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation/standards/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Fetal Blood
MH  - Humans
MH  - Private Practice/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Public Health Practice/*standards
MH  - Tissue Donors/ethics/supply & distribution
MH  - Tissue and Organ Harvesting/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Transplantation, Autologous
RF  - 23
EDAT- 2008/05/08 09:00
MHDA- 2008/07/02 09:00
CRDT- 2008/05/08 09:00
PHST- 2007/08/31 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2008/01/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/05/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/07/02 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/05/08 09:00 [entrez]
AID - sam11001_fm [pii]
AID - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02198.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med J Aust. 2008 May 5;188(9):533-5. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02198.x.