Though autologous cord blood transplants are rare, there have been nearly 10,000 allogeneic transplants (I.e., using blood from other people) since the first successful case in France in 1988. In Taiwan, the first case was handled by Lin.
急起直追雖然自體臍帶血移植的案例不多見，但異體臍帶血移植，從 1988 年法國第一個成功案例開始，迄今已近一萬例，台灣也由台大小兒血液腫瘤專科醫師林凱信首開先例。