title: Recommendations for a standard UK approach to incorporating umbilical cord blood into clinical transplantation practice: conditioning protocols and donor selection algorithms.
abstract: Allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation is an established curative treatment modality for patients with malignant and non-malignant haematological disorders. Since the first related umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) in 1988, the use of UCB as a stem cell source for transplantation has become a standard practice in many countries, with approximately 8000 such transplants having been performed worldwide to date.
authors.affiliation: Section of Haemato-Oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Belmont, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK. bshaw@doctors.org.uk
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Veys
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pagliuca
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Addada
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Craddock
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Gennery
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mackinnon
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Madrigal
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Navarrete
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Potter
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Querol
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Regan
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Hough
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D036101:Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000592:standards*; D046148:Donor Selection / Q000592:standards*; D006402:Hematologic Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning / Q000592:standards*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D006113:United Kingdom