Chapters Transcript Video Milestone: Teen is 1,000th Patient Treated with Proton Therapy at Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute So we have Baptist health Miami Cancer Institute are so proud to have reached a landmark 1000 patients treated with Proton therapy. This clearly is a testament to the solid team that were put in place, the vast experience that we've brought to South Florida and the fact that we are now clearly the leading Proton therapy central in South Florida. With this vast experience under her belt. First time we found that there was a problem. Emma was experiencing neck and back pain. Oh, we didn't take that as a symptom as to her diagnosis. Now we just took that as muscle pain or back pain went through a series of doctors and ended up being a sense of the ER. And at the ER, they did some MRIs and found that she had a brain tumor. We found out she also on top of her tumor, was diagnosed with Covid 19. So we had kind of like a double whammy. Ah, but the diagnosis was in June and from June until now, it's been a journey. Emma has a type of tumor called the German Oma. It is a rare tumor that arises in the brain of teenagers and young adults and oftentimes arises in either the pituitary gland or the pineal gland. With modern proton therapy like that delivered at Baptist Health's Miami Cancer Institute, patients like Emma have a excellent chance of not only being cured of their brain tumor but also being able to finish school, go on to college, have a successful job and live independently. Yeah, today's Emma's last treatment, and I am elated, beyond blessed and super excited for her to get back to normal. As parents, you always want the best for your Children, and you never expect that you would go through situations like these. But at the end, there is hope. At today's visit, Emma has successfully completed all of her treatment for German oma. At this point in time, she is clinically n e d. No evidence of disease and now enters long term follow up. I don't know how I feel, to be honest, like I think that like, I'm definitely excited. But I'm happy and I'm sad at the same time because like, I think the sad part comes in like because I am gonna miss Miami Cancer Institute like you. You don't want to be there when you're doing your treatment. But then when you when you actually have to leave you like Wait, why We're not going there anymore. So that's the sad part of it. But the exciting part is like, once I'm done with this, I get to go back to doing things that I usually do. Like going to the pool, going to school, Doing cheerleading. Yeah. So I'm excited about that stuff. I'm gonna say that I have four, um, radiation text. Anna, Kiva, Steffi and Khalid. They are my four favorite people here. And, of course, my child life specialist. Um, I want to say thank you to you guys because, um, like you made me feel comfortable and like, you don't make me feel like scared when I was in radiation and stuff like that. So I definitely do want to say thank you. So while we do get a chance to deliver a very wonderful treatment for patients, we also get a chance to really get to know them over that period of time. And it's really nice to see them graduate and get to go home and not have to come and see us five days a week. But it's also a little bit sad because we've developed a lifelong friendship and patients really do like to come back and visit with the team that took care of them mhm. Created by
