The six-year-old has been diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease.
For a full year now, Hunter has been battling DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas), rare, highly aggressive, and difficult-to-treat brain tumors found at the base of the brain.
Only 10% of children with DIPG survive for 2 years following their diagnosis, and less than 1% survive for 5 years. The median survival time is 9 months from diagnosis. DIPG affects 200-400 school-aged children in the United States each year.
Hunter has been traveling to Monterrey, Mexico for an experimental treatment called intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC), which delivers chemotherapy drugs directly to a tumor, while reducing exposure to healthy tissues. So far, the treatment seems to be working; Hunter’s tumor has shrunk and or remained stable since each treatment in Mexico, meaning it has not grown or spread to the other parts of his brain.
To continue treatment in 2018, Hunter’s parents are trying to raise $120,000. Please go to Hunter’s GoFundMe site and consider making a donation towards his treatment.
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