By Dan Merritt, Winner Advocate
No leukemia in his bone marrow is a great test result from early last week for Eli Kortan of Colome, 13.
But it’s considered a “false remission,” according to his mother Shannon Kortan.
Though it would seem it’s an indication that cancer-fighting medicine is making progress towards curing the Pre B Cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) her son was diagnosed with last January.
Last week, Shannon and Eli were at “the Castle” — Sanford Children’s Hospital of Sioux Falls — which looks like a castle.
They weren’t supposed to be there as of Friday (May 8) when Shannon was contacted by phone, but it was taking longer to flush high-potency cancer medicine from Eli than expected.
He received the medicine on Monday to begin what was supposed to be a three-day treatment.
It was just one of many rounds of treatments for him that were expected to last three years from the time of his January 2015 diagnosis.
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