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Advocate applauds national public umbilical cord blood bankBy David LeaThe first bank and stem cell laboratoryNobody can walk into a CanadianIn terms of saving you, your par-OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFFwill be established in Ottawa within twoBlood Services operation and get thisents, me, my sister, my neighbours,years.done now, said Smyth.An Oakville man who lost his son to it's just one piece of the puzzleOther banks will eventually be set up inHow many more people have diedleukemia is calling a government decision Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton.while we fluster around?to fund a national public umbilical cord Given all this information Smyth saidCanadian Blood Services will have toMichael Smythblood bank a good step forward, but still now more than ever is the time for teenfundraise $12.5 million of the total $48not nearwill create a long-term supply that willly enough to help gravely ill and adult bone marrow and stem cellmillion investment.Canadians.help reduce Canadas dependency on inter-donors to come forward.Once in place parents will have theMichaenationally sourced units.l Smyths son David passed away Hes also continuing to call on Canadianopportunity to donate their childrensSmyth said while he is happy the gov-in September 2010 shortly after inspiring Blood Services to make some significantumbilical cords anonymously to a publicmore than 300 people to regernment is taking steps to help more peo-ister at a bone changes to the way they collect theseumbilical cord blood bank, making theirmarrowple at the end of the day, this initiative clinic.donations by establishing permanentdonations available for any patient inFor Davidwould not have saved his son., who was only 20 years old, a cheek swab clinics within their facilities.need.match was never found.What Davids doctors have told me isOn Mondaythe beautiful thing about the brand new, provincial and territorial ministries ostem cells in the umbilical cord is that theyf health (except Quebec, which has its own program) announced a com-will stick way better to a better range of Sore Feet, Sports Injury, bined investment of $48 million over the people so you dont have to have as great aPainful Ingrown Toenails? next eighmatch, but for an adult of 200 pounds yout years to create a national public umbilical cord blood bank intended to pro-probably need three or four of them, hePlantar Warts? 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