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July 7, 2015

Young Girl Inspires Researcher — and May Change Cancer Treatment

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When she was 12 years old, Shannon O’Hara told Rochester’s KTTC-TV, “My life is going to mean something to someone, somewhere.” That was 2011, and it was a profound prediction from a young girl who’d been diagnosed with a rare, inoperable tumor called a brain stem glioma. Just nine months after she was diagnosed, Shannon […]

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Tags: brain stem glioma, Dr. Richard Vile


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