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Originally Posted by donna j.
When I questioned the transplant dr. originally about cord transplant, she said I was too big, that there would have to be more than 1 cord, and they did not use them on adults. Is this not true?
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It's correct that they usually need to use 2 or more cord blood units on adult patients (unless they have small bodies), but transplants are indeed performed this way. Perhaps what the transplant doctor meant by "they don't use them on adults" was that they don't do cord blood transplants for adults at
that treatment center, even though they are done at other treatment centers.
With cord blood you don't need as close a match between the patient and the donor as with bone marrow or stem cell transplants, which is why it's often possible to find multiple cord blood units with a good enough match. It's still true that the closer the match, the better.