Isabella Strahan, the daughter of NFL legend Michael Strahan, has shared a major update about her battle with cancer.
In a video post released on Thursday, the 19-year-old announced that she is now cancer free. The video, which was titled “Goodbye Hospital,” comes months after Strahan revealed in January that she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor after undergoing an MRI.
“Everything was clear,” she said, adding that her scans looked great. “Cancer free, and everything is great. I don’t have another doctor’s appointment until October.”
“I miss my doctors already, and everyone who’s helped me because they’re all so nice. I feel like I’m just saddened today knowing that I wasn’t going to be going back for a while,” she added.
Strahan had been sharing updates on her cancer battle with the public after revealing in a January “Good Morning America” segment that she had been diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a form of brain tumor.
Sitting next to her father, Isabella Strahan told GMA host Robin Roberts that she began experiencing headaches and nausea in the fall, not long after beginning college classes. Strahan added that the situation had worsened by October, when she started throwing up blood. Doctors were ultimately able to identify a tumor towards the back of her brain.
While undergoing treatment back in May, the 19-year-old revealed that she had been experiencing memory loss.
“I don’t remember Tuesday, ’cause I’m given this drug to protect my hearing and just because I have a reaction to it, they give me Ativan,” she said in a video that month. “And for some reason, this happened last time too. I can’t remember a single thing about that day.”
In June, Strahan completed her fourth and final round of chemotherapy, an accomplishment she celebrated in a TikTok post titled “Did It.”
“Now I have to recover and get back to my usual state, which is going to take a long time,” she said in a June 14 video post. “But (I’m) done with treatments.” In another vlog uploaded on Wednesday, Strahan explained that she was undergoing surgery to remove her chemotherapy port, which is a small device that attaches to a vein and allows doctors to draw blood and apply treatment without using a needle stick.
“The recovery for this seems to be like four weeks of not going in water and stuff like that, and just kind of being careful and scar care,” she said. “So not too bad.”
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