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...birth to another. Her cousin Bobby Cooper, 33, learned last spring that he has a rare form of leukemia and might be a candidate for a stem-cell transplant. Duke is one of about a dozen hospitals and blood centers in the country that is collecting blood from umbilical cords and using the cells to treat cancer patients. So Christina has agreed to donate her cord blood, in hopes of raising the odds that her cousin will find a match when he is ready for his transplant...
...lifter. She's getting closer, so Smith sets up his equipment and slathers on the antiseptic. "Pretty, pretty," he says. "Good work." At 2:14, Cothren announces, "It's half out." Christina bellows, "Pull it out!" "We don't pull this one out, honey," Cothren replies calmly. The umbilical-cord collection team has entered, gowned and masked like aliens. One more push, one more, one more and suddenly Smith is unslinging the head of Kyle Wayne Crosby from his valuable umbilical cord. The baby is hanging upside down, crying. "That's how I feel too," Christina says...
...collection team, with exquisite delicacy, inserts a catheter into a vein in the cut cord, draining the precious blood while the placenta is still in place. Kyle is on the warming table, all 9 lbs. 7 oz. "That's no infant," the merry nurse says, "that's a toddler." Father Kevin scoops up his swaddled son and greets him, then lays him tenderly on his mother's chest. "Well, hidey-ho," she says...
...treatment is called cord-blood transplantation. It is an approach that is being used at several medical centers, but Duke has done more of it than anyplace else...
...treatment is based on the belief that the placenta and umbilical cord are rich in powerfully therapeutic cells, called stem cells. Frequently discarded, the placenta and umbilical cord from a few new mothers, like Christina Crosby, are now being donated right in the delivery room...