Michael Strahan says the daughter’s cancer diagnosis was ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’

Michael Strahan Opens up how it felt for him as a parent when he learned that his daughter had brain cancer.

“As a parent you are scared. Oh mine, you’re just scared,” the father of four and “Good morning America” Co-anchor says in the new ABC special “Life Interrupted: Isabella Strahan’s struggle to beat cancer,” a preview that was sent Thursday on “GMA.”

Strahan learned in October 2023 that his then 19-year-old daughter Isabella Strahan had been diagnosed with MedulloblastomaA malignant brain tumor that develops in the cerebellum or the back of the brain where movement and coordination are controlled.

Isabella Strahan, now 20, shares his health trip in the upcoming ABC DocumentaryFebruary 5th will be issued.

After reviewing chemotherapy, radiation and two brain operations was Isabella Strahan declared cancer -free Of her doctors in July 2024.

In “Life Interrupted” Michael Strahan describes the unknown about his daughter’s diagnosis as “every parent’s worst nightmare.”

“It never happened to us that it would be cancer, I want to be honest with you, just look at the field at the time in her life – and we have no history with anything bad in the family,” says Strahan.

Isabella Strahan talks about the documentary how in September 2023 she began to notice that she was walking in a zigzag pattern and not going in a straight line. She says she thought she might have dizziness, but her symptoms continued and she began to experience nausea. Then, one day, she says she started vomiting blood.

She says her twin sister Sophia Strahan urged her to go to the emergency room and Michael Strahan sent her to be controlled by a doctor.

After Isabella Strahan received a diagnosis of medulloblastoma, her doctors told her they needed to admit her in the hospital immediately and prepare for brain surgery to try to remove brain tumor.

Dr. Michelle Israel, a specialist in internal medicine and one of Isabella Strahan’s doctors, the documentary says her forecast at that time was not good.

“She was actually in danger of having a seizure, having a stroke and potentially dying,” Israel says.

Isabella Strahan would continue to document her cancer journey publicly in a series of vlogs on YouTube when she received treatment in Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University.

After months of treatment, Isabella Strahan revealed On her YouTube channel she was cancer-free, and by August 2024, She returned to college at the University of Southern California.

“Life Disconnected: Isabella Strahan’s struggle to beat cancer” will be released on February 5 at ABC at 1 p.m. 22 one and the next day at Disney+ and Hulu.