Michael Strahan Shares 19-Year-Old Daughter’s Cancer Diagnosis

Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan revealed his 19-year-old daughter’s mind most cancers prognosis.

Isabella Strahan and her father sat down with Robin Roberts to debate her prognosis journey, explaining how it began when the then-18-year-old College of Southern California freshman started feeling “excruciating” complications.

Between September and October, the signs progressed.

“That’s after I positively observed complications, nausea, couldn’t stroll straight,” the 19-year-old defined. “I believed I had vertigo ’trigger I regarded that up and related that with strolling straight, in order that was my downside.”

On Oct. 25, 2023, Isabelle felt worse than earlier than. 

“I awoke most likely at like 1 p.m., I dreaded waking up, however I used to be throwing up blood,” the teenager influencer said. 

After notifying her sister, who notified the remainder of their household, that they had her endure an entire physician’s checkup.

The physician carried out an EKG for her coronary heart however didn’t have the MRI machine, which produces elaborate pictures of the physique’s insides.

So, the physician despatched her to a unique institute that had one. As soon as the outcomes got here again, the preliminary physician contacted Isabella and advised her to move to the hospital instantly however didn’t inform her why.

Finally, medical doctors notified Isabella of the quickly rising, four-centimeter (greater than a golf ball) tumor at the back of her mind. Her situation is known as medulloblastoma, which accounts for 20% of all childhood mind tumors and is mostly present in ages 5 to 9.

The previous soccer participant needed to convey his child lady to an East Coast hospital however couldn’t since she needed to endure emergency surgical procedure.

“She was closely medicated, as you may think about,” the 52-year-old stated. “However she would have conversations. She had plenty of her buddies, and they’d come over simply to take a seat along with her. And there have been instances when she was in plenty of ache. She was sleeping rather a lot.”

After six weeks of proton radiation, Isabella obtained to ring the bell.

“I simply completed radiation remedy, which is proton radiation, and I obtained to ring the bell yesterday,” she stated. “It was very thrilling as a result of it has been an extended 30 classes.”

In February, the 19-year-old inspiration will start chemotherapy at Duke.

Isabella stored her mind most cancers hidden from the general public for 2 months however didn’t need to anymore, particularly with the opportunity of serving to others cope. Isabella partnered with Duke Youngsters’s Hospital and began a YouTube sequence documenting her journey.

Strahan shared how he wasn’t ready for the way exhausting it could be to see his daughter battle with the world’s largest enemy and realized the significance of help.

As for Isabella’s subsequent chapter, she hopes to get again into her routine and return to school in California.