Michael Strahan, heart, and his daughters Sophia Strahan, left, and Isabella Strahan arrive on the Kids’ Choice Sports Awards on Thursday, July 11, 2019, on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Michael Strahan, heart, and his daughters Sophia Strahan, left, and Isabella Strahan arrive on the Kids’ Choice Sports Awards on Thursday, July 11, 2019, on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Good Morning America anchor and former NFL participant Michael Strahan revealed on Thursday’s present that his teenage daughter was lately recognized with medulloblastoma, a uncommon type of mind most cancers.

“I’m very proud of her and she’s always been strong and this is something that is so personal that I didn’t know if it would be something that she’d want to share,” Strahan stated.

But Isabella Strahan, a 19-year-old scholar on the University of Southern California, determined to inform her personal story to GMA‘s Robin Roberts.

Isabella stated in September, she started experiencing excessive complications, in addition to nausea and an lack of ability to stroll straight. At first, she thought she had vertigo. But in late October, she started vomiting blood. She texted her twin sister Sophia, who knowledgeable the remainder of the household. Michael Strahan then took her to the physician.

Isabella’s MRI outcomes confirmed a fast-growing, 4 centimeter mind tumor that was bigger than a golf ball. She had an emergency surgical procedure to have the tumor eliminated the following day, Roberts stated.

But Isabella lately rang the bell, a celebratory custom for most cancers sufferers who full their radiation or chemotherapy remedy. Isabella had 30 periods of radiation and can start chemotherapy at Duke University in February, she stated.

Isabella was in rehabilitation for a month and needed to be taught to stroll once more. Now, she says she’s feeling good.

“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,” she stated.

She has began a YouTube channel to doc her journey via vlogs, or video blogs. Proceeds from the content material will go to Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.

“It’s been like two months of keeping it quiet, which is definitely difficult,” Isabell stated.

She stated she desires to be “a voice and be a person people who maybe are going through chemotherapy or radiation can look at and find something interesting about their day.”

Michael Strahan stated the expertise has modified his perspective about his personal life, and has highlighted the significance of assist.

“Perspective is a big thing,” Isabella stated. “I’m grateful just to walk or see friends or do something, cause when you can’t do something, it really impacts you.”

Michael Strahan stated: “I literally think that, in a lot of ways, I’m the luckiest man in the world because I got an amazing daughter, and I know she’s going through it, but I know that we’re never given more than we can handle, and that she is gonna crush this.” He added: “I need her. I don’t know what I would do without her.”

For now, Isabella stated she is trying ahead to getting again to California and persevering with her faculty training.