cord blood stem cells transcript

Dr Sanjay Gupta: Diana Tirpak was so sure her leukemia was gonna kill her, she bought this suit for her husband
Jake to wear at her funeral.
Diana: I was bound and determined he was going to look fine at the funeral.
Without a bone marrow donor Tirpak traditionally faced a death sentence. Mary Laughlin is her doctor.
Dr Laughlin: Her prognosis was one hundred percent mortality in the absence of a transplant.
Diana: My doctor had a very serious conversation with me and my family and the bottom line of that
conversation was I had two to six months to live.
Gupta: Until recently Diana Tirpak's story would end right there.
Diana Tirpak loving wife and mother,
long time school nurse,
dead of acute leukemia at 66
Doctor: We're putting it in our purple tube for cord blood.
Gupta: Something thrown away considered waste until recently changed everything: the umbilical cord and
placenta. It turns out cord blood holds something special: stem cells that can be used instead of bone marrow. It's
a medical breakthrough that is saving lives, like Diana Tirpak's, here moments before her stem cell injection. She
was lucky, her doctor happened to be a pioneer in stem cell transplants.
Diana: My new birth date was February 22nd at 9:55 am in the morning, and so I celebrate several birthdays now, I
celebrate that day, I celebrate the birthday of my donor, and I celebrate my own birthday. So there is much to
celebrate after a stem cell transplant.
Gupta: Stem cells from cord blood are now being used to treat people with cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and
myeloma. Once it's donated it's entered into an online registry and kept frozen. The donation is anonymous with
more than 200 hospitals participating nationally.
Cord blood does have some advantages, it's easier to match than bone marrow, Why? Because the immune cells
are not yet fully developed and the patient can get the treatment in about three weeks as opposed to six to eight
weeks for bone marrow from an adult donor. But there is still the risk of new blood rejecting the host, something
called graft versus host disease. And there's also still months of recovery but it's a life-saving opportunity
especially for African-Americans and other minorities.
Before the only option was the bone marrow registry.
Dr Laughlin: That registry of 13 Million people meets the needs of about 60% of Caucasians in the United States
and only 5 to 15% of underrepresented minorities.
Nathan: I had a pretty much 100% chance to die.
Gupta: When Nathan Mumford was diagnosed in 2004, he thought his number was up.
Nathan: We were trying to get a bone marrow transplant and we went through that process and nobody had a
match.
Gupta: Mumford had two choices he could continue chemotherapy and live maybe another year and a half or he
could try cord blood.
Nathan: That was our opportunity, that was a chance for me to live, I'm not a quitter, I've never been a quitter so
I wasn't gonna quit.
Gupta: Cord blood saved his life just as it saved Diana Tirpak's.
Diana: Such a tiny, tiny few drops of blood, blood cells, really give new birth to people.
Gupta: One new birth giving rise to another.
Dr Sanjay Gupta CNN reporting.
Translation.
1. Je t'ai acheté un costume pour porter au mariage de ta belle-sœur.
2. Je ne suis pas un dégonflé. Pourtant, quand on m'a diagnostiqué avec un lymphome, j'ai bien cru que mon compte
était bon.
3. C'est une avancée spectaculaire dans le domaine de la transplantation de cellules. Ce médecin est à l'avant-garde
de la recherche sur les cellules souches.
4. Jusqu'à présent le cordon ombilical était jeté avec les autres déchets anatomiques. Quel gâchis! Heureusement,
on le congèle maintenant pour utiliser les cellules souches dans le traitement de la leucémie.
5. Le rétablissement prend des mois mais cela vaut la peine. L'essentiel est de guérir.
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