After arriving at St. Jude in March 2018, Bella underwent cancer treatment as well as speech and occupational therapy. Now, at 2 years of age, she is back home and doing well.
Updated: May 8, 2019 11:51 AM IST
By Thomas Charlier
Just imagine the scene: It’s the lobby of a hospital in Mumbai, India, a busy place. Amid it all, a young couple sits in a stunned haze trying to fathom the unfathomable, accept the unacceptable.
Their 1-year-old daughter — a bright and happy girl named Bella — likely was going to die.
That’s what Amit and Jaya were told. Although the surgery to remove the girl’s brain tumor had been a success, doctors said, subsequent tests indicated the mass was an embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes, or ETMR.
Bella, now 2, travelled with her father Amit and mother Jaya from India to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where she received proton therapy for a type of brain tumor known as anaplastic ependymoma.
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