Cord Blood Transplants: A Sickle Cell Cure

Sosa Evbuomwan was diagnosed at birth with sickle cell disease. In 2011, she and her parents decided to try stem cell transplantation. They came to Duke's Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant program. Successfully transplanted with umbilical cord blood cells, Sosa is fully engrafted with donor cells. Her sickle cell... cured.