Michael Strahan announces daughter was diagnosed with brain tumor

Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter Isabella was diagnosed with a brain tumor in October, the two announced together on “Good Morning America.”

Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter Isabella was diagnosed with a brain tumor, the two announced together on “Good Morning America” on Thursday.

In an interview with Michael Strahan's co-anchor Robin Roberts, Michael and Isabella Strahan said that the diagnosis came in late October, and she has since undergone emergency surgery and radiation.

“It’s been, like, two months of keeping it quiet, which is definitely difficult,” Isabella Strahan said. “I don’t wanna hide it anymore ‘cause it’s hard to always keep in.”

Isabella Strahan said she began noticing symptoms in the fall, during the start of her freshman year at the University of Southern California. She developed headaches and nausea and couldn't walk straight around Oct. 1, she said, and initially thought she might have vertigo. Then on Oct. 25, she vomited blood.

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles discovered a 4-centimeter tumor — larger than a golf ball — in the back of her brain. She was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a rare type of brain cancer that most often affects children ages 5 to 9.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michael-strahan-daughter-diagnosed-brain-tumor-rcna133429

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