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		Which diseases can be treated using cord-blood technology? The main diseases that can be treated by stem cells are: • Malignancies such as Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) • Hemoglobinopathies/Blood Disorders such as Fanconi Anemia • Congenital Metabolic Disorders such as Gaucher Disease • Immunodeficiencies such as Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome The diseases that can be treated by umbilical cord blood cells transplantation include: • Malignancies   • Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)   • Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)   • Chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML)   • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)   • Solid tumors: Liposarcoma, Neuroblastoma, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Yolk sac sarcoma • Hemoglobinopathies/Blood Disorders   • Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (AMT)   • Aplastic anemia   • Blackfan-Diamond anemia   • Congenital cytopenia   • Evan's syndrome   • Fanconi's anemia (genetic)   • Kostmann's syndrome (genetic)   • Sickle cell anemia   • Thalassemia   • Congenital Metabolic Disorders   • Adrenoleukodystrophy   • Bare-lymphocyte syndrome   • Dyskeratosis congenita   • Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis   • Gaucher disease   • Gunter disease   • Hunter syndrome   • Hurler syndrome (genetic)   • Inherited neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis   • Krabbe disease   • Langerhans'-cell histiocytosis   • Lesch-Nyhan disease   • Leukocyte adhesion deficiency   • Osteopetrosis (genetic) • Immunodeficiencies   • Adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA or SCID-ADA)   • Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCIDs)   • Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome   • X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP) Back to Facts & Answers