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My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 94. My mother-in-law had it when she was in her 40s. But to my knowledge, there¡¯s no history of brain cancer in our family.

So, when my son, Eric, was diagnosed with pineal germinoma ¡ª a type of childhood germ cell tumor ¡ª in his brain in August 2021, I was stunned. He was only 24 at the time and had just started his dream job as the new percussion director at a Houston-area...