FrontMatter -- INDEPENDENT REPORT REVIEWERS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND BOXES -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION -- 3 RESEARCH -- 4 UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKS AND BANKING -- 5 ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES -- 6 INVENTORY OF A NATIONAL CORD BLOOD STEM CELL BANK PROGRAM -- 7 RECOMMENDED STRUCTURE OF A NATIONAL PROGRAM -- APPENDIXES -- A METHODS SECTION: DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS -- B SURVEY -- C SURVEY RESULTS -- D COMMISSIONED PAPER--POTENTIAL NONHEMATOPOIETIC USES FOR STEM CELLS IN CORD BLOOD--Margaret A. Goodell -- E COMMISSIONED PAPER--A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF INCREASING CORD BLOOD INVENTORY LEVELS--David H. Howard, Martin Maiers, Craig Kollman, Brent Logan, Loren Gragert, and Michelle Setterholm -- F COMMISSIONED PAPER--HLA OVERVIEW--Carolyn Katovich Hurley, Ph.D. -- G STATISTICAL REPORT--ANALYSIS OF THE NYBC, NMDP, AND NHLBI CORD BLOOD DATA--Robert Gibbons -- H BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF -- ACRONYMS -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX.