Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella has opened that she’s fighting with a malignant brain tumour which is known as medulloblastoma.
The TV news anchor and his 19-year-old daughter shared during an appearance on Good Morning America that Isabella is undergoing medication for the cancerous brain tumour, which develops in the lower back part of the brain called the cerebellum.
Speaking to GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts on 11 January, Isabella stated that she was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in late October after she started experiencing headaches during her first semester as a freshman at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “I’m feeling good, not too bad,” said Isabella. “I’m very excited for this whole process to over, but you just have to keep living everyday, I think, through the whole stuff.”
The college student first noticed her symptoms when she started experiencing “excruciating” headaches and nausea. She initially thought she was suffering from vertigo, but when she woke up one morning and started throwing up blood, Isabella was encouraged by her family to seek medical attention.
After she went to an MRI scan, doctors found that Isabella had developed a four-centimeter tumour growing in the back of her brain, sized larger than a golf ball. “I don’t really remember much,” Strahan said of his daughter’s diagnosis. “I just remember trying to figure out how to get to [Los Angeles] ASAP. And it just doesn’t feel real. It just didn’t feel real.”
