10-Year-Old Rings The Bell After Proton Treatment For Brain Cancer
By: Mike Glover Corbin Patten,10, has been battling a rare form of brain cancer his entire life. But he’s a fighter and Thursday he gave cancer a major blow. Corbin’s brain tumor is inoperable because of its location. Doctors have been able to control the tumor with chemotherapy but is starting not work so well. And radiation is just not an option. “Radiation can be very damaging especially to the normal tissues in and around the brain. So, we worry about his hearing. We worry about his eyes and the nerves that go from his eyes to the brain,” Dr. John Han-Chih Chang with Oklahoma...