BOISBRIAND — Matthew Shreindorfer has had a roller coaster couple of years after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in the summer of 2014.
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But, after getting a cancer-free diagnosis, he’s upbeat and finally ready to start living a normal life with his wife, Katia Luciani.
Schreindorfer was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in August 2014, just two months after he married Luciani, his high school sweetheart.
In an effort to save his life, Schreindorfer’s family crowdfunded almost $1 million so the couple could travel to New York to take part in an aggressive, experimental gene therapy treatment.
Schreindorfer received a bone marrow transplant in Quebec in June, and everything was going well until he found out in December that the cancer was back.
“I found out I had a relapse,” he told Global News.
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In March, the couple traveled to Bethesda, Maryland to take part in a CAR-T cancer treatment at the government-run National Institute of Health (NIH).
“I know that this is the beginning of a soon-to-be normal life again for us,” he wrote on his Facebook page at the time.
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The following month, doctors told him his cancer levels were at five per cent.
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“I try not to live with the thought of relapses now,” he said.
“I feel I should just live my life.”
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