What’s the difference between private and public cord blood banking?

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We run our cord blood bank as a public bank to help anyone around the world who needs a stem cell transplant. It doesn’t cost anything to donate cord blood to our programme.

Commercial cord blood banks charge to collect and store babies’ cord blood for private family use.

I’ve already been tissue typed for a member of my family. Now I want to join the Anthony Nolan register. How do I do this?

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You can join our register by completing this form. Please mention that you’ve been tissue typed before.

We’d appreciate it if you could forward us a copy of your HLA tissue typing results by email to donor.support@anthonynolan.org .You should be able to get the tissue typing report from the hospital that did your testing.

If you have any questions, please do give us a call on 0303 303 0303.