Jason Yaeger talked with Action 3 News on the phone from a Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota. He says after the warden denied his many requests for a special release, he’s been calling on Senators, Governors and even the President of the United States. He’s desperate to see his daughter before she dies.
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Marian Dolishny’s nervous smile and worried, flicking eyes, betray the certain knowledge that what he is about to undergo will be anything but pleasant. But he also knows that time is short: if the enormous tumour inside his head is not removed, it will soon kill him.
Melanie was 9 months old when her parents faced an agonizing decision. She had already had two operations for a malignant brain tumor, and doctors could not be sure they had removed all the cancer. She needed more treatment, but standard chemotherapy offered little hope in exchange for its harsh side effects. And yet the McDaniels knew that if they did nothing, the odds were high that the tumor would come back.
After an MRI, she learns she has a brain tumor. It’s small and benign, but it takes over her life. Any small headache can send her spiraling out of control with fear and running for her mom’s bed.
The boy and his doctors are waging a battle against a deadly glioma tumor lodged at the base of Brian’s brain stem. The disease affects the central nervous system.
Hassenbusch succumbed to glioblastoma at home, nearly three years after he was diagnosed and nine months after cancerous cells recurred. Throughout, he was a forceful spokesman who believed that, in his words, “life doesn’t have to end just because you have cancer.”
Close friends, the two families have been through similar situations with very different outcomes. Carter has been in remission since September. Declared “cancer free,” he will lead a healthy life with the memories of his infancy, hopefully, fading with time. The Faraones lost their son, Christopher, to brain cancer when he was 3. After a chemical cocktail of chemotherapy ruined Christopher’s kidneys and sessions of radiation were unsuccessful, the Faraones were praying for a miracle that never came.
Sitting cross-legged on his Stanford Hospital bed, Harakhchand Savla tells a story about his brain tumor.
Tonya Burwell is a picture of hope. At the age of 16, Burwell, now 27, went for a routine eye exam when her optometrist noticed there was pressure on her optic nerve.
Natalie is currently receiving chemotherapy at St. Jude. She is doing well. Dr. Sanders has given her a 70 percent chance of survival over the next five years.
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