Six-year-old Bentley’s diagnosis of precursor B cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (B-ALL) in 2019 sent his family into a tailspin of worry about what the future would hold for the sweet boy who loved to make everyone laugh.
It didn’t take long for the family’s anxiety to turn cautiously toward hope. Bentley was enrolled in a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences clinical trial studying whether a drug called blinatumomab, when given in conjunction with chemotherapy, would improve patients’ survival without the cancer returning. Within a month, Bentley’s leukemia was in remission, and he remains disease-free today.