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Michael Strahan Opens Up About Daughter’s Brain Cancer and the Words He’ll Never Forget: ‘I Want to Live’

'Good Morning America' co-anchor Michael Strahan opens up to PEOPLE about his daughter Isabella's aggressive brain cancer in an exclusive interview.

Through his daughter Isabella’s toughest times, after her brain tumor was removed and she was undergoing another round of chemotherapy, Michael Strahan kept looking "to find the silver lining somewhere," he says, "some light at the end of the tunnel.” Back in the fall of 2023, when Isabella was starting her classes at the University of Southern California, she began experiencing nausea, dizziness and debilitating headaches. For the next eight months, Isabella was in and out of the hospital and underwent two follow-up surgeries to clean out an infection around the surgical site and replace part of her skull with a titanium mesh plate.

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