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Cord Blood Banking

Please note:

Waterloo Regional Health Network offers this information about cord blood banking to you for your consideration. It is your choice whether to proceed. Your relationship for cord blood retrieval and storage will be with your chosen provider. Parents are welcome to use any cord blood service they wish.

Insception Lifebank (Insception) is the largest and most experienced cord blood bank in Canada. With over 20 years of experience, Insception Lifebank has processed and stored more than 72,000 cord blood units, the largest number of all Canadian cord blood banks.

Waterloo Regional Health Network has partnered with Insception as an independent preferred vendor to ensure our patients are educated about umbilical cord blood and tissue banking. A portion of revenues generated from cord blood collections at Waterloo Regional Health Network is paid to the hospital and directed towards supporting clinical research, education, medical equipment and other investments in patient care.

About Cord Blood and Tissue Banking

Below is information provided by Insception to assist you in making an informed decision about your cord blood and tissue banking options. You can also read more educational material about cord blood and tissue banking from Health Canada.

To receive your cord blood information kit, please click here to visit Insception Lifebank’s website (opens in a new tab)

Families in need program

To ensure families have access to potential treatments or cord blood clinical trials, Insception offer the families in need program. This program provides the collection and storage of cord blood, free of charge, for children with a sibling a haematological malignancy (ie. leukemia) or with Cerebral Palsy. Certain criteria needs to be met to be accepted into the program including approval from Insception’s Medical Director in consultation with the referring physician.

For more information  For more information, please contact Client Services at 1(866)606-2790 or [email protected]

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References

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