Gee, all these teens and children dying of cancer . . . I wonder why?
Michael Strahan's daughter
Isabella Strahan is undergoing treatment after being
diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a common malignant tumor that arises in the cerebellum, a part of the brain located at the base of the skull.
The college student and her dad
opened up about her health news in a segment that aired on
Good Morning America Thursday. She learned about her condition in late October, and underwent emergency surgery at Cedars-Sinai to remove the mass on Oct. 27, a day before her 19th birthday.
"I'm feeling good. Not too bad," said Isabella, who will start chemotherapy at Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center in Durham, North Carolina, next month. "That's my next step. I'm ready for it to start and be one day closer to being over. .... I'm very excited for this whole process to wrap. But you just have to keep living every day, I think, through the whole thing."
"I literally think that, in a lot of ways, I'm the luckiest man in the world, because I've got an amazing daughter," Michael, 52, said in the interview with his fellow
GMA co-anchor
Robin Roberts. "I know she's going through it, but I know that we're never given more than we can handle and that she is going to crush this."
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Isabella is one of
Strahan's four kids. The former
NFL star has two older children — Tanita, 32, and Michael Jr., 29 — with his first wife Wanda Hutchins, before he welcomed Isabella and her twin sister
Sophia with his second wife,
Jean Muggli.
In her interview with
GMA, Isabella said she first began experiencing symptoms of her brain tumor while beginning her freshman year at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "I didn't notice anything was off 'til probably like Oct. 1," she said. "That's when I definitely noticed headaches, nausea, couldn't walk straight."
ABC
After Isabella originally shrugged it off as vertigo, her condition took a turn for the worse on Oct. 25, when she woke up in the early hours of the morning "throwing up blood." Her family encouraged her to seek immediate medical attention.
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