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  Abstract

 Background and Objectives

 Views on population increase, more access to physician are causes to increase the referral to health care center. By progress of medical sciences, some disease is going to new treat. One of new treatment is bone marrow transplantation with three sources, Umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cell, Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell. UCB is available source of haemopoietic stem cells that can be an alternative to peripheral blood or bone marrow stem cells in treatment of the malignant and non malignant children and also in adults. The number of cord blood units stored by public and private banks are large, for much possible autologus engraft. This review will concentrate on procedure of collection, clinical use, advantages, limitation and storage of umbilical cord bloods.

 Materials and Methods

 The data of this article was obtained through a literature search via Pubmed, websites and individual experiences.

 Results

 Establish of cord blood banks are necessary to support bone marrow transplantation center for improve social welfare.

 Conclusions

 In countries which governments support the cord blood bank, establish public cord blood bank have more priority than private or familial cord blood bank.