Duke Children’s Hospital — Hospitalized For Brain Cancer Treatment
An 8-year-old boy from Harnett County, North Carolina is fighting a rare and aggressive brain tumor that has left his family pleading for more time. Janson Herring is hospitalized at Duke Children’s Hospital in Durham after doctors diagnosed him with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that forms in the brainstem and offers few treatment options.
“There’s nothing that we can do but pray and hope for a miracle here,” Janson’s uncle, Dylan Herring, said, according to ABC11 News. Dylan Herring described his nephew’s diagnosis as unfavorable, and the family is now raising awareness and funds while working to get Janson into a clinical trial…