Kilgore family shares child’s brain tumor journey
After undergoing three surgeries and a year of chemotherapy, Trevor Hurton is on the road to recovery from a life-threatening brain tumor, with his family crediting the staff at Children’s Health Dallas for saving his life.
KILGORE, Texas – September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month.
In Texas, almost 2,000 children under the age of twenty are diagnosed each year.
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A Kilgore family is praising the work at Children’s Hospital in Dallas for saving their son. At nine years old, Trevor Hurton was diagnosed with a brain tumor that threatened his life. Now he is on the road to full health.
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A journey that included multiple surgeries and a year of chemotherapy.
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On the North Texas giving day, Trevor and his family were grateful for what Children’s Health Dallas had given to them.
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The Hurton family from Kilgore laughs now but had nervous tension for two years when Trevor, who is now 11 years old, got sick and started his journey.
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“We thought it was just a stomach bug because my brothers all had it recently. We said, ‘Oh it’s passing through the whole family now,'” said Trevor.
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“And I pushed for a CT scan, and they found a tumor in his brain stem, and they put us in an ambulance and we’re in Kilgore, so about two and a half hours away, they put us in an ambulance and sent us this way,” said Trevor’s mom, Laurie.
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That CT scan showed a mass in the center of his brain stem with a buildup of fluid in the brain.
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The next day, Trevor had brain surgery.
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The tumor was neurofibromatosis. A genetic disorder that causes tumors to form on nerves throughout the body.
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