Overview
- Dinkci said Wednesday that his partner Cinja is in a second cycle of immunotherapy and is at home on a continuous infusion for about three and a half weeks, and doctors have scheduled a third cycle and ongoing follow-up through the spring.
- Medical tests have identified two people who match roughly 90 percent as potential stem-cell donors, but a transplant is not currently needed because she is being treated within a clinical study.
- The striker recently paused training and missed a test match to care for Cinja, and he says coaches and teammates have shown understanding while he tries to separate his focus between caring duties and match play.
- Their daily life has changed to reduce infection risk: they avoid germ-prone places, treat public toilets as off limits, carry disinfectant and sleep apart when one of them is ill because the therapy weakens her immune system.
- The couple went public in April with a donor-registration appeal backed by SC Freiburg, 1. FC Heidenheim and DKMS, which boosted registrations and left them planning for more hospital checks and a hoped-for summer holiday if treatment continues to hold.