When she was just 7 months old, she suddenly developed a fever at night, and subsequent tests revealed that little Elif İkra had blood cancer. Elif İkra immediately started chemotherapy, and everything was going well, but...
"Just when things seemed to be going well, the disease relapsed during chemotherapy, so we planned to administer heavier chemotherapy followed by a bone marrow transplant. Baby Elif was lucky; she received a ten-out-of-ten fully matched stem cell transplant. While she was on chemotherapy, we also initiated the bone marrow transplant process."
Elif İkra clung to life again with both the chemotherapy she received and the bone marrow transplant. However, just 2 months after the transplant, she contracted coronavirus. Fortunately, with early diagnosis after such difficult days, she also beat the virus.