Clayton was already unwell when he was diagnosed with hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a highly rare kind of blood cancer. He was sent to St. Jude for treatment, which included chemotherapy and CAR T-cell therapy, a sort of immunotherapy. Because the cancer had not gone away, he needed a bone marrow transplant, which he received from his mother. Clayton is now cancer-free and doing well.

"I wouldn't call anything a 'fail.' Each attempt just brought us to where he needed to go next, and none of it would have been possible without the research access." - Clayton's mother, St. Jude patient