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>> When Dr. Ross and I were seeing Matthew for his first postoperative visit,
we reviewed the overall record in the results from the lab.
And when we saw the diagnosis had changed, the two of us just looked at each other.
And basically, in so many words said, oh, my god, no.
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Matthew came across as very down-to-earth, sort of laid back individual.
That you wouldn't think was at a number two academically
in his high school class or was an all-star athlete.
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When we got our final pathology report back, the pathologist read the tumor
as a sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma.
Which is a very, very highly malignant, highly aggressive tumor.
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Matthew started on his chemotherapy for the disease that had spread to his lungs.
Initially, there was some response.
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However, Matthew -- his tumor stopped responding to the chemotherapy.
And instead they started to grow.
The day before Matthew died, he told his parents, he said,
"I want you to take my college fund.
And establish a fund for skull-based tumor research for Dr. Marentette to use."
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When I heard that this is what he wanted done.
And with what his parents did.
I thought it was about the most generous thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
He had his full college fund that his parents had saved for.
And the money was there.
Could have easily been used for his brother.
Could have been used to pay down a mortgage on a home or just about anything.
This is absolutely prime example of people giving something that is important to them
so that it can help other people.
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When someone comes in today and we diagnosis the same tumor, I give them far more hope.
In the last six and a half years, we've treated eight patients with this tumor.
Seven are alive and free of disease.
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