Cryocord: Stem Cell Banking, is it worth it?

[Josh0027]

Hi to all,

I'm planning to have my first baby's cord blood stored. I read about HSCs and MSCs benefits and still reading on its benefits. I like to ask fellow tsikoteers who already have experience in doing this?

HSCs will only be limited for blood cells while MSCs can produce tissues for most of our major organs. I read as much as I can on the effects of stem cell therapy and there are already cases that it has cured some disease (although there are no official studies to prove this, just reports on patients being cured). The technology is IMHO still in its infancy but I'm nearly convinced.

Is it really worth to invest in it in your opinion?


Many thanks,
Josh

[Jiggs]

If you can afford it.. I think it is best to adopt it, kahit pa sabihin na in it's infancy pa ang technology..it will still develop later on. Kapag naging successful meron ang baby mo na preserved specimen (Cord blood)...its now or never ika nga. How much ba ang ganyan..what i know is there is an annual fees..any ballpark figures?

[niky]

Remember, though, many stem cell therapy offers are quack science... There are benefits to storing it, but there is also the possibility that by the time your child needs it, in thirty or forty years, that the technology for creating new stem cells from adult tissues may be perfected.

[111prez]

Enrile, Belo et al never had the stem cells from their cords stored but they are availing of this treatment now

[niky]

Kaya nga... newest quack craze. The "holistic medicine" craze of the 21st century.

There are no proven benefits to stem cell therapy. Especially with stem cells from unknown sources.

We already have a term for foreign cells that generate new tissue inside the body. We call them "cancer cells".

[yebo]

3 years ago it was P500K at st luke's. and there's a maintenance fee every few years, di ko natanong how much yung maintenance fee.

if i have a child to be born and i have that money, i'd rather deposit that P500k in my child's trust account. by the time he'll need any medical procedure requiring stem cells, maybe when he/she is already 50+ years old (huwag naman sana) then that money would have multiplied many times over and he can afford whatever it will cost.

[BratPAQ]

di ba ine-extract naman yung stem cell sa tao mismo then a couple of weeks to grow the body part then transplant?

i think yung mga quack eh yung kung saan saan kinukuha ang stem cell, even sa animal, dapat kung kanino ilalagay dun din kukunin.

[niky]

Except for very special cases, there are NO proven or FDA approved stem cell therapies.

[rollyic]

3 years ago it was P500K at st luke's. and there's a maintenance fee every few years, di ko natanong how much yung maintenance fee.

if i have a child to be born and i have that money, i'd rather deposit that P500k in my child's trust account. by the time he'll need any medical procedure requiring stem cells, maybe when he/she is already 50+ years old (huwag naman sana) then that money would have multiplied many times over and he can afford whatever it will cost.

yun ay kung buhay pa yung bank by that time....

[Horsepower]

Also been offered by our OB's secretary. So I asked, how much ba? Sabi nya mahal sir, basta super mahal (good thing iniisip nya siguro wala kaming pera. LOL). I did not ask any further kasi I easily lose patience sa ganun paikot-ikot na usapan.

Sabi ng isang UP-educated doctor who specializes in Stem Cell here in the PH, from his experience, mas gusto nya ang adult stem cell (yung galing sa bone marrow - ang sakit siguro nun pag tinusok ka sa buto).

Since stem cell is like a "lego" piece that is the building block of our bodies, it can turn into anything - even to cancer cells. That part stunned me.

I am doing further gathering of information. Mid-year pa naman lalabas ang 2nd child namin :-)

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Also been offered by our OB's secretary. So I asked, how much ba? Sabi nya mahal sir, basta super mahal (good thing iniisip nya siguro wala kaming pera. LOL). I did not ask any further kasi I easily lose patience sa ganun paikot-ikot na usapan.

Sabi ng isang UP-educated doctor who specializes in Stem Cell here in the PH, from his experience, mas gusto nya ang adult stem cell (yung galing sa bone marrow - ang sakit siguro nun pag tinusok ka sa buto).

Since stem cell is like a "lego" piece that is the building block of our bodies, it can turn into anything - even to cancer cells. That part stunned me.

I am doing further gathering of information. Mid-year pa naman lalabas ang 2nd child namin :-)