- Weston Brown is an 8-year-old from Padre Island who beat childhood cancer when he was 6 years old.
- He battled a rare kind of cancer called type 4 sacrococcygeal teratoma.
- The Triumph over Kid Cancer Foundation and the D.K. Foundation are partnering to start an event called Sunset Bells, to raise awareness and money for pediatric cancer.
- Weston Brown is the first childhood cancer survivor to get honored and ring the first ‘Sunset Bell’ on Mon. Sept 16th at sunset.
Weston Brown was a typical toddler, until just after his third birthday when his family received the news that he was diagnosed with type 4 sacrococcygeal teratoma. Weston is now 8-years-old and cancer free.
He’s being honored for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month by The Triumph over Kid Cancer Foundation through ringing the first of 365 daily ‘Sunset Bells’ at Snoopy’s on Sunset Island.
“Weston was diagnosed at age three. He had type 4 sacrococcygeal teratoma. It’s a tumor that grew off his spine, but on the inside. So, it was very hard to diagnose at first,” Weston’s mother Ashley Brown said. “He went through chemo through 2020 with COVID and he never got to ring a bell. So, for him to ring this bell means more than just the inaugural thing. It’s very special to him. I’m so glad that he was included and was invited to be the first one, because it means a lot to us and our family.”