Friday, September 28, 2012

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Raising funds for four-year-old boy with leukemia

By Lisa Goudy


Just over a month ago, four-year-old Dexter Druar was diagnosed with a rare type of leukemia.

Dexter’s aunt Toni DuBois said when he was diagnosed with biphenotypic leukemia on Aug. 25 of this year — a combination of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) — 90 per cent of his bone marrow was cancerous.

“They started with three different chemos all at once. He’s now down to one,” said DuBois. “But yeah, he’s doing OK, health-wise. He’s a fighter.”

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