Isabella Strahan Shares Empowering Message Amid Brain Cancer Battle

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Tearful Isabella Strahan Details Painful Third Brain Surgery Amid Cancer Battle

Isabella Strahan is proving however beardown she truly is.

Michael Strahan's girl gave an update to fans connected her outlook amid her conflict with encephalon cancer.

After a TikTok idiosyncratic asked, "Are you inactive alive?" Isabella replied with an April 21 video of herself dancing to Sexyy Red's "Get It Sexyy." She captioned the response, "crazi comment." Twin sister Sophia Strahan commented nether the clip, "better than ever." Isabella couldn't hold more, writing, "Not going anywhere." 

Fans besides shared good wishes for the 19-year-old successful the remark thread, with 1 writing, "That's right, babe girl!" While different added, "Keep fighting, girl! Never springiness up. Keep, keep, swimming." 

Isabella—who was diagnosed with medulloblastoma successful October—has been documenting her treatments connected societal media, including respective rounds of chemotherapy and aggregate craniotomies to region her tumor. Her caller video effect came 2 weeks aft she highlighted her hard betterment process successful her bid connected YouTube.

"It's not arsenic atrocious arsenic the archetypal time," Isabella said of her 3rd craniotomy successful an April 12 video. "They bash springiness you symptom medicine. I cognize everyone's like, 'Can't they springiness you symptom medicine?' They don't enactment that good connected me."

As she laic successful her infirmary furniture post-operation, Isabella—daughter of Michael and ex-wife Jean Muggli Strahan—couldn't assistance but interruption down into tears arsenic she admitted, "I'm successful a batch of pain."

"My caput really, really, truly hurts close now," she explained. "Not going to lie, I've been crying a lot."

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But the University of Southern California pupil has continued to stay positive, adjacent sharing that alternatively of six rounds of chemotherapy, she would lone person to spell done 4 rounds.

"These are blessed tears," she revealed successful an April 10 video. "It's not adjacent considered crying erstwhile it's blessed tears."

"I'll beryllium done successful May. And I tin effort and person a summertime to consciousness better," Isabella continued. "I'm truthful blessed 'cause I thought I'd beryllium done astatine the extremity of July." She added, "I'm truthful happy."

Keep speechmaking to spot much of Isabella's conflict with encephalon cancer.

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Brain Cancer Diagnosis

Isabella Strahan—the girl of erstwhile mates Michael Strahan and Jean Muggli—said she "didn't announcement thing was off" astir her wellness until aboriginal October 2023, erstwhile she started experiencing headaches and nausea.

After throwing up humor 1 day, she got a afloat checkup and MRI scan astatine the urging of her dad. The results showed medulloblastoma, a malignant encephalon tumor recovered successful children.

Later that month, she underwent encephalon country to region the mass.

Instagram / Sophia Strahan

Family Support

Isabella went nationalist with her diagnosis successful a January 2024 interrogation with her dada and ABC News' Robin Roberts.

"I virtually deliberation that successful a batch of ways, I'm the luckiest antheral successful the satellite due to the fact that I've got an astonishing daughter," Michael noted astatine the time. "I cognize she's going done it, but I cognize that we're ne'er fixed much than we tin grip and that she is going to crush this."

Isabella's duplicate sister Sophia Strahan besides offered her support. "I'm truthful fortunate to person the astir astonishing sister and champion person successful the world," she wrote connected Instagram. "The past fewer months person been truthful overmuch harder than we could person ever imagined, but it's made maine recognize conscionable however beardown you are"

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Radiation Therapy

Following her interview, Isabella shared she had finished her circular of radiation therapy.

"I'm precise excited to yet beryllium done," she said successful a Jan. 16 YouTube video. "It's been a agelong six weeks and I'm precise blessed to yet heal my caput aft each of this due to the fact that the broadside effects and everything get to you."

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First Chemotherapy Round

Following radiation therapy, Isabella began undergoing chemotherapy to dainty her cancer.

"My full rima feels similar I got 1 elephantine basal canal," she shared successful a Feb. 16 vlog. "Every azygous tooth, conscionable ripped retired and not adjacent surgically enactment backmost in. My jaw hurts, the bottommost of my lingua hurts. It hurts erstwhile I gulp water." 

Still, the teen kept her spirits up, joking successful a video posted a week aboriginal that her hairsbreadth is "insufficient now."

"Besides being bald," she said, "it doesn't bring maine symptom mentally." 

Isabella Strahan/YouTube

Emergency Skull Surgery

Though Isabella was initially scheduled to acquisition her 2nd circular of chemotherapy successful aboriginal March, she underwent exigency country connected her skull—during which doctors drained retired other fluid from her caput and replaced a bony they had primitively chopped retired with a titanium plate—which pushed her chemo back by weeks.

"I'm successful truthful overmuch pain," she said successful a March 6 vlog. "My look is highly puffy, and this sucks. I was successful truthful overmuch symptom earlier. I was, like, screaming."

YouTube/Isabella Strahan

Special Visit

Isabella's dada Michael arranged for her favourite vocalist Bryson Tiller to halt by their New York City location arsenic a pick-me-up amid her treatments.

"You haven't moved this overmuch successful months!" Michael joked to his girl successful her vlog of the visit. "You are fangirling close now."

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Chemotherapy Round 2

Isabella shared successful a March 21 video that she had started her 2nd circular of chemotherapy, meaning determination was "just 4 more" rounds to go.

YouTube/Isabella Strahan

New Side Effects

Amid her 2nd chemotherapy round, Isabella said she began experiencing difficulties successful walking.

"I virtually can't locomotion without being lightheaded oregon retired of breath," she shared successful a March 27 vlog, lamenting that determination isn't an "anti-exhaustion medicine" she could take.

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Good News

The YouTuber had a affirmative update aft finishing her 2nd circular of chemotherapy, sharing that she would lone person to acquisition 2 much rounds of alternatively of the primitively scheduled four.

"These are blessed tears," she said successful a video posted April 10. "It's not adjacent considering crying erstwhile it's blessed tears."

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Roadblock successful Her Journey

However, Isabella deed a bump successful the roadworthy successful her attraction program erstwhile she had to acquisition a 3rd craniotomy. According to the teen, this process was dissimilar thing she had antecedently experienced.

"Not going to lie, I've been crying a lot," she elaborate successful an April 12 vlog. "They sunk a needle successful 3 spots and drained fluid, and I was wholly awake for this. So, my archetypal wholly awake surgery."

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