Six months after Matthew Schreindorfer lost his hard fought battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), his wife, Katia Luciani, is still working to honour his life.
“Even though Matthew has passed, I had told him I would continue and really push for these kinds of [cancer] treatments here,” she told Global News.
Schreindorfer was diagnosed just two months after marrying Luciani, his high school sweetheart.
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The Laval couple raised almost $1 million for experimental cancer treatment in New York and was in the process of raising $700,000 for another in Seattle that they had hoped would save his life.
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He passed away Feb. 25 at the age of 27.
On Sept. 30, Luciani plans to honour her late husband in the Cycling for a Cure event.
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“It is in honour of the incredible awareness he brought on to cellular therapy and its need in Canada,” she wrote on the Help Save Matthew Facebook page.
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“In honour of the role he played in the large grant they received last year for immunotherapy treatments. In honour of how incredibly hard he fought. In honour of how kindhearted he was to help other patients in similar situations, all the while battling his own disease.”
The event is being held by the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center to raise money for cellular therapy research.
Earlier this summer, one of Schreindorfer’s doctors asked Luciani if she wanted to be part of the event committee.
To which Luciani decided, “it was a no brainer.”
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“This cause is directly related to the immunotherapy treatments we pushed so hard for and goes to a team of doctors, many of whom treated him throughout the last the years,” said Luciani, adding that Schreindorfer had hoped to take part in the event.
“Matt had bought a bike helmet, got all ready and started to work out. Unfortunately, he relapsed afterwards so he wasn’t able to participate.”
Luciani says Team “Matt Attack” is looking forward to the event and hopes more teams will join in to support the cause.
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