Kaiden was diagnosed Memorial Weekend, May 2009, a few months after his 4th birthday, with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). He was in remission 4 weeks later. He was almost a year and a half into treatment when he relapsed in Oct 2010. He was back into remission 4 weeks later, and still is. He is receiving high dose chemo treatments about every week, to cure his Leukemia. Nov. 2012---Kaiden has relapsed yet again. Currently we are working on getting him back to remission. Jan. 2013--Kaiden is back into remission!! He is going to have a bone marrow transplant. We are in the beginning steps of starting this process. Feb. 28, 2013--Kaiden received a bone marrow transplant from his little sister. Nov. 14, 2013 -- Kaiden has relapsed a 3rd time, we start treatments again in a few days. Jan. 2014--Kaiden is back into remission, currently we are working on getting him into a clinical trial at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). June 2014 - Kaiden received 2 doses of his modified T Cells in Philadelphia. Sept 2014 - Kaiden received a third dose of modified T Cells in Philadelphia Jan 2015 - Kaiden will receive another version of modified T Cells in Philadelphia. March 2015 - Kaiden has had another relapse. We are researching other treatment options for him. June 2015 - Kaiden will start high dose chemo, followed by another bone morrow transplant. August 2015 - Kaiden had his 2nd bone marrow transplant, with his Dad has the donor Nov 2015 - Results showed Kaiden is 100% donor, and is doing well!! March 2016 - Kaiden has relapsed for a 5th time April 2016 - Kaiden started low dose chemo to hold off his disease as long as possible so he can be a kid and enjoy things! June 2016 - Kaiden started a new trial drug in hopes to kill the leukemia cells July 2016 - Kaiden is in remission, and continuing the trial drug Inotuzumab for 6 cyles. January 2017 - Kaiden rec'd his last dose of Inotuzumab and is doing well! July 2017 - Kaiden has relapsed for the 6th time, and is starting low dose chemo to hold off his disease while we try to find another treatment for him.
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