After an onset of double vision in June 2016, an MRI showed a tumor in 12-year-old Cooper’s brain. Thereafter, he bravely faced a variety of intensive treatments and therapies, with many ups and downs along the way. Cooper finished a series of 30 radiation treatments in October that caused the tumor to decrease in size during the winter of 2016. After a period in which Cooper’s strength and balance deteriorated rapidly, an MRI in April 2017 revealed the tumor had grown. Within a month, this deadly and inoperable brain tumor claimed his life. After Cooper passed, an autopsy showed that the tumor was a diffuse midline glioma, or DMG.
A note from Cooper’s mom, Amy:
Cooper’s tumor was donated to The Morgan Adams Foundation Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado / the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to further research into diffuse midline glioma and new treatments for pediatric cancer.
Please support this important research in honor and loving memory of Cooper:
