Standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin intended for human application [EU Legislation in Progress]
SoHO-based treatments are of high value. They provide large numbers of life-saving and life-enhancing therapies every year: 25 million units of blood for transfusion (e.g. for surgery or trauma care); 36 000 stem cell transplants for blood cancers, life-creating therapies (medically assisted reproduction treatments, e.g. 940 000 cycles of in vitro fertilisation), and life-improving therapies (e.g.14 500 cornea transplants for restoring sight, and 2 000 skin transplants for burn wounds and other injuries).