Lukas was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was about 16 months old. He had a partial resection at 2 years of age and underwent 18 months of chemotherapy. For 8 years his status was stable although he has suffered through terrible seizures and has been on many different anti-seizure medications. In January 2015 after many routine MRI’s, his results showed that the brain tumor had rapidly grew back and Luke needed to have surgery immediately. The tumor was removed and found to be a Pylomyxoid Astrocytoma graded 2 or 3. We ended up staying at CHOP for 2 weeks for a complication which resulted in another brain surgery and he another surgery done, after it if grew back again in 2016, Lukas had surgery to remove the brain tumor at CHOP May 15, 2017. Lukas underwent 30 Proton radiation treatments last summer 2017 and has had 1 MRI which was inconclusive in its results whether the radiation had any effect on shrinking the the brain tumors.
Lukas is an amazing kid with such spirit for all that he has been through in his short life, he loves legos, baseball ⚾️, basketball and his family and friends more than anything else in the world and he just wants to make people laugh and smile!!