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Michael DiRocco
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Jaguars defensive finish Josh Hines-Allen stated Friday his 7-year-old son has virtually totally recovered from a seven-month battle with leukemia.
Hines-Allen shared the information on social media, together with saying that his basis, 4 One For All, will conduct a seasonlong marketing campaign known as 4 One For Hope that may give again to 4 cancer-focused nonprofits all through the 2025 season.
The dreaded six-letter phrase that no mother or father ever desires to listen to: Most cancers.
Seven months in the past, our world stopped when our son, Wesley, was identified with leukemia.
As mother and father, we have held one another via tears we did not know we had, watching our little boy combat the most important battle… pic.twitter.com/KN33gTTaRT
— Joshua Hines-Allen (@JoshHinesAllen) July 25, 2025
“We not too long ago acquired the excellent news that Wesley is on his strategy to a full restoration,” Hines-Allen stated in an announcement. “We’re grateful to the devoted crew of medical doctors, nurses, and caretakers who contributed to our son’s well-being and recommended us via this time. Our purpose is to make sure that households going via one thing related really feel the identical degree of affection and help as we did.”
Hines-Allen didn’t journey to Indianapolis to play within the Jaguars’ 2024 season finale in January after Wesley was identified with acute promyelocytic leukemia, a sort of blood most cancers that may be life-threatening and may trigger extreme bleeding, anemia and infections. Per the Cleveland Clinic, the uncommon most cancers impacts round 30,000 folks in america every year and most of the people are of their 30s when it strikes.
Therapies that have been developed within the Eighties turned the situation from one which was thought-about deadly to curable, per the Cleveland Clinic.
Wesley is scheduled to endure his remaining chemotherapy remedy in late August at Nemours Youngsters’s Well being in Jacksonville, based on a information launch from Hines-Allen’s basis.
“Wesley is doing nice,” Josh Hines-Allen’s spouse, Kaitlyn Hines-Allen, stated in a video that the household posted on Hines-Allen’s account on X. “He is swimming daily. He is operating round. He is taking part in sports activities.”
Per the discharge, Wesley’s battle impressed the Hines-Allens to dedicate the 2025 season to serving to different Jacksonville households battling pediatric most cancers. Every month, 4 One For All will give again to a distinct group: Nemours Youngsters’s Well being (September), American Most cancers Society (October), Ronald McDonald Home Charities of Jacksonville (November), and Nationwide Pediatric Most cancers Basis (December).
