LifeCell Community Stem Cell Banking Program- BabyCord | Safe, Easy & Convenient

LifeCell BabyCord 1 Year Bank Baby's Stem Cells, Pay for Storage Annually is a stem cell storage service that helps you bank your baby’s cord blood in a community pool, where you, your baby, and your entire family gets access to its registry of more than 75000 qualified and consented stem cell units. Banking of cord blood stem cells can provide protection against the impact of more than 90 medical conditions and also gives Indians more than a 97% chance of finding a suitable stem cell match.

Uses:
It preserves your baby’s stem cell-rich cord blood in a community bank, which comprises 75,000+ stem cell units.

Product Specifications and Features:

• Life Cell Baby Cord is a stem cell storage service that helps new parents with stem cell banking in India

• Upon enrolling online, you will receive a collection kit, which has to be carried along with you on your big day

• Your doctor will then collect your newborn’s umbilical cord blood at birth using our collection kit

• After this, please book reverse pick up, so that LifeCell paramedic can collect the sample from the hospital

• Once your sample reaches our laboratory, it is processed using the PrepaCyte-CB technology, which helps in efficiently recovering haematopoietic stem cells from the cord blood sample

• These cells are then cryopreserved (frozen) until future use

Why Bank Stem Cells: a) Significant Need for Stem Cells: India has a high burden of inherited red cell diseases such as thalassemia and sickle cell disease (2.5 Lakh patients) where stem cell transplant is the only curative treatment option b) cord blood is easier to match: - for stem cell matching there are between 6 - 10 parameters that need to be matched. adult bone marrow requires 9-10 parameters to match, but cord blood requires only 6-8 parameters to be matched, thereby making it 10-100x easier to find a match. c) Ready availability and no additional cost: cord blood stem cells being frozen are 100% available and ready for immediate release. Furthermore, withdrawal of matching units (unlimited) from our inventory is totally free. d) Recommended by experts - community cord blood banking has the benefits of both private banking and public banking and hence is a superior option. e) Increasing success rates with cord blood: success rates for cord blood transplants are improving with each passing year. f) Limited Indian-origin donors and units - the size of Indian donor registries is significantly suboptimal (<1 Million Donors) to provide reasonable access to a matching stem cell donor.

What's Included In The Kit: a) a stainless steel container that consists of Cooling foam brick, 2 maternal blood collection tubes (9 ml & 6 ml), 1 tourniquet, 1 vacutainer (vacuum blood collection tube) and needle, 1 wrapping towel bag, 1 biohazard bag, b) a vacuum-sealed aluminium bag containing the cord blood collection bag (approx 150 ml capacity), c) a purple card with a bar code sticker.

Directions for Use:
Your doctor and paramedic will follow the simple instructions provided in the collection manual to collect your baby’s cord blood

Safety Information:

• Read the label carefully before use

• Store the sample in a cool and dry place

• Keep away from sunlight

• Keep out of reach of children