THE MIGHTY QUINN

2019-1st Diagnosis

On February 10th, he was blowing out the candles on his Monsters Inc birthday cake and turning 3, on February 11 he was receiving a diagnosis of having a brain tumor, called: Medulloblaastoma.  

He would spend the next week having an 8 hour surgery to remove a majority of the tumor which was the size of a lime sitting on his brain stem and blocking the fluid from draining from his brain.  He had a drain put in to alleviate pressure and would soon begin treatment.  

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Quinn underwent  a rigorous treatment  under the "Headstart IV" medical trial.  This consisted of 3 rounds of platinum chemotherapies and one round of "induction" (very high dose) chemotherapy and on June 6, 2019  he underwent an autologous stem cell transplant. 

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2021-2nd Diagnosis

On January 29, 2021 Quinn went through his routine 3 month monitoring MRI, where they discovered 2 new nodules & a lesion in a different location than the original tumor site, on his cerebellum.

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Due to these "new disease" nodules/cancer being located so far in the brain from the original location, he is considered to have metastic disease.  

March 2, 2021, he will  begin 6 weeks of high dose radiation 5 days a week.  

This will be full brain and spine concentrated in the hopes that all brain cancer cells are eradicated.

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For more information on the Mighty Quinn, please visit the Friends of Mighty Quinn website at https://friendsofthemightyquinn.com/