Jennifer Jones Austin works as a lawyer and child advocate in Brooklyn, N.Y., devoting her talents to protecting at-risk children. So it may be fitting that in Austin's own hour of need, her life was saved by donations from two newborn children.
Austin survived leukemia in 2010 because she received transfusions of stem cells donated from umbilical cord blood that had been drawn shortly after the children's birth."
We are seeing more and more stories where stem cells collected from a child's umbilical cord blood are taking the place of traditional bone-marrow transplants and sometimes eliminating the need of radiation and/or chemotherapy treatments. This is a great story!
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