TV personality, Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella, 19, reveals she’s been diagnosed with Brain Cancer

American TV personality, Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter has revealed she’s been battling a rare brain cancer.

Isabella broke down in tears as she candidly disclosed her battle with a rare brain cancer. She also revealed that she had to undergo emergency surgery after doctors found a tumour bigger than a golf ball growing at the back of her brain.

The USC freshman appeared on Good Morning America with her dad on Thursday morning, with the pair opening up to Robin Roberts about the youngster’s ‘serious’ diagnosis.

Isabella told Robin: ‘I’m feeling good, not too bad. I’m very excited for this whole process to wrap but you just have to keep living every day through the whole thing.’ 

Michael and Isabella revealed that the teenager’s medulloblastoma diagnosis came after she began suffering from ‘excruciating headaches’ during her freshman year in college when she was just 18. 

‘I noticed something was off since probably September,’ Isabella, who has a twin sister, Sophia, shared. ‘Like October 1st, that’s when I definitely noticed headaches, nausea, [I] couldn’t walk straight.’ 

Initially, Isabella says she mistook her symptoms for vertigo, explaining that she ‘looked that up’ online and ‘associated it with walking straight’. 

Michael confessed that when his daughter shared her symptoms with him, he never considered that they might be indications she was battling cancer, particularly because she was just 18 and was so ‘young, strong and healthy’. 

‘You know, [she was] 18 years old at the time, you’re not thinking this,’ he said. ‘Maybe it’s vertigo, maybe it’s something else. But she’s young, strong, healthy.

However, on October 25th, Isabella’s condition took a severe decline, with the teenager revealing that she began throwing up blood soon after waking up. 

‘I woke up at probably like 1PM,’ she recalled. ‘I dreaded waking up but I was throwing up blood.’

Isabella was ultimately diagnosed with medulloblastoma, which – according to GMA – accounts for 20 per cent of all childhood brain tumours and is typically found in around 500 children each year, most commonly those between the ages of five and nine.

On October 27th, one day before her 19th birthday, Isabella underwent emergency surgery to remove the tumour, with Michael stating that doctors wanted to ‘get it out as soon as possible’.

‘It sent a signal of how serious it was when they said, “Hey, you shouldn’t risk trying to put her on a plane to get her to the East Coast or another doctor. We know what it is and we should get it out as soon as possible,”‘ he recalled of his conversation with doctors.

Thankfully, doctors told the family that, although serious, they are ‘confident’ that they can treat Isabella’s cancer.