We recently found out that my Mother-In-Law has stage 4 colon cancer, which has spread to the liver. They did surgery to remove it from the colon and cauterized the 2 small spots on her liver, but she is having to start Chemo soon. I am 35 weeks pregnant and was wondering if we banked the baby's cord blood and gave it to her, could it help her in any way? Thanks.
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It depends on where you live and how advanced the medical technology is in your area. But bank that cord blood, by all means. Even if it can't help your mother-in-law, it could be life saving for your own child one day. Stem cell research is growing, and the service for saving the cord blood is reasonable. See http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_newborn/pregnancy/cord_blood.html
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no she are in stage 4 i pray for her and ur family my husband had cancer in1999 he take chemo for 7 years and died25/7/2006
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You should probably donate the cord blood . . not sure it would benefit your MIL . . but some child may need it. The problem with cord blood stem cells is that for adults . .there just isn't enough of it for treatment . . the cord blood is plenty for a baby or possibly children . .but an adult needs more than one to get enough stem cells that might do any good. Also I do not believe that stem cell transplants are done for someone with colon cancer at the moment. It is only certain types of cancers that seem to have any benefit to the treatment. Everyone has stem cells and if she did go to stem cell transplant they usually try to harvest the patients own stem cells first. But it can't hurt to donate the cord blood . . in honor of your MIL.
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I absolutely agree that you should donate the cord blood in honor of your MIL. Cord blood is best used by donating it as opposed to storing it for yourself. There is no cost involved if you donate it and you could save someone's life. May daughter was saved by a single unit of cord blood (see my 'source' for our Thank You Letter to our donor). Saving it is only if you want to store it for your own possible future use (which is not worth the money or trouble). It is like buying an expensive lottery ticket. The chances that you could ever use it are so small. In fact, there is a good chance that the child you have will not be able to use it even if they do become ill because often the 'defect' in their blood or DNA that caused the illness is in the cord blood too. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics warns agains storing cord blood. http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Donate_Cord_Blood_Share_Life/Cord_Blood_Donation_FAQs/index.html As far as your MIL goes, they do not do stem cell transplants for that type of cancer. They do them for Leukemia, Neuroblastoma, and Lymphoma which are all cancers that take over the bloodstream. (There may be others, but those are the ones I am familiar with). I so wish I could give you better news than that. I'm saying a prayer for her. Have you started a caringbridge.com site for her to keep friends and family notified of how she is doing?
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