Bo Cooper will continue to fight for his life, a bone marrow biopsy has shown that he never reached full remission back in April and that the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) has returned.
Cooper was admitted into the Tom Baker Centre in Calgary where he received treatment with another experimental drug from the U.S.A, which was not successful in putting Cooper into full remission.
He is now undergoing a battery of tests at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in Washington, to determine if he will be accepted as a candidate for the Car T Cell CD19 clinical trial in Seattle.
Rob Van Hecke wrote on the “Bo Copper Leukemia Treatment Fund” Facebook page that this trial is similar to the treatment Cooper had originally received in Maryland. However, it will target different leukemia markers on the cells.
Van Hecke also added that this treatment is only an option because of the fundraising and monumental support of our community, as well as all of the communities and fire departments throughout Alberta and around the world.
Without this support, Cooper would be in a very different and hopeless situation right now.
