Question

Can cancer be cured by stem cells?

Answer 1

The Stem Cells themselves don't cure the cancer but the stem cells are used to replace destroyed stem cells after the old ones are destroyed by chemo.

First Chemo in very high doses are used to kill off the cancer along with sometimes the use of radiation which gets rid of the cancer.

Then they use the new stem cells to replace the destroyed and bad ones so in one way they cure cancer with stem cells but it's mostly the chemo and radiation that cures cancer by killing the cancer cells.

Answer 2

Stem Cells are viable for around 25 years in storage.

However they may be viable even longer but the storage of stem cells has not been around all that long to know for sure if they will last longer but they are likely to be viable longer than 25 years.

Stem cells and cord blood banking has been around for at least 25 years and so far stem cells and cord blood has remained viable for those 25 years so far.

So we do know that stem cells and cord blood remain viable for at least 25 years when it's stored properly using cord blood banking.

However since cord blood and stem cell banking have not been around longer than 25 years as of now we cannot know how much longer stem cells and cord blood remain viable.

Hopefully the stem cells and cord blood never need to be used but it's likely that the stem cells and cord blood will remain viable for 30 to 50 years or even longer.

But most people would not be around or want to store cord blood or stem cells longer than 50 or so years anyway.

But at least as of now we know that the cord blood and stem cells are still viable and usable after 25 years of storage.