[clairekim]

My wife is moving forward with haplo/cord transplant at NIH. As I understand, cord blood transplant does result in lower occurrence/severity of GVHD but there is a risk of graft failure due to insufficient amount of cells available. There are also dual cord blood transplant option to address this issue, but I am not sure if the improvement has been confirmed. Haplo/cord does help in this case by using haplo as a bridge graft source while the Cord blood is slowly taking over the graft over time. Good luck.