Liana Padron was in her mid-20s in 1999 when a mole on her thigh was discovered to be melanoma, a dreaded form of skin cancer. Some lymph nodes were cancerous as well.
After successful treatment, she remained well until a year ago, when she had a seizure. The cancer had spread to her brain.
“Some doctors told my family I was terminal, I was going to die,” recalled Ms. Padron, 33, a mother of three. “But it wasn’t like that.”
Among other treatments, a Gamma Knife was used three times to focus intersecting radiation beams on Ms. Padron’s brain lesions during incision-free outpatient procedures at Doctors Hospital.
““I realized there was hope for me,” Ms. Padron said.