"Frank The Brain Tumor" Is Dead - 9 Y.O. Named His Brain Tumor

[matcom]

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RICHMOND, Va. -- A 9-year-old boy who nicknamed his brain tumor "Frank" and whose mother launched an online auction to help pay for his medical bills is now cancer-free, his mother said Tuesday.

"Frank is dead!" an elated Tiffini Dingman-Grover said by telephone from her Sterling home as the family prepared to head to a press conference in Washington, D.C.

David Dingman-Grover had most of his tumor removed Feb. 2 at the Skull Base Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The family did not learn the results of a biopsy on the tumor until midnight Monday, and crowded around the phone on "pins and needles" waiting for the call from David's surgeon, his mother said.

"(David) is so mellow -- he's so easygoing. He was just like, 'Really? Great! Cool!"' Dingman-Grover said of her son's reaction to the good news. "It's like, 'Honey, is that all?' He says, 'Did you ever think it wouldn't be gone?"'

David was diagnosed in May 2003 with a grapefruit-sized malignant brain tumor called a rhabdomyosarcoma, which was causing blindness and headaches.

He nicknamed it "Frank" after Frankenstein, who scared him until he dressed up as the monster for Halloween.

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[shesemsmom]

1. Thats great news.

I hope he has made a full recovery!!

[Worst Username Ever]

2. Sweet! What a cool kid.

I remember when this first came out, it seems so rare that there are happy endings. Great!

[prolesunited]

3. Great to hear!

Terrible indictment of our society that his mother had to run an online auction to pay his medical bills.