IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – A Dyersville boy is the honorary Child Captain for the upcoming Cy-Hawk sport Saturday.
5-year-old James Corridor got here to the Stead Household Youngsters’s Hospital after experiencing a persistent ear an infection.
An area physician ordered a scan, which revealed a mind tumor. Medical doctors situated one other tumor on the Stead Household Youngsters’s Hospital.
Corridor was identified with a uncommon, cancer-like dysfunction referred to as Langerhans cell histiocytosis. The dysfunction is just like leukemia, and causes tissue injury, or lesions.
Corridor accomplished chemotherapy in Could 2022. Nevertheless, one 12 months later, scans revealed one other mass in his mind.
Corridor will proceed chemotherapy till Spring 2026.
He’s now in kindergarten, and likes to play sports activities akin to t-ball, swimming, and basketball. He additionally enjoys taking part in video video games, which is his favourite a part of staying within the hospital.
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