19-Year-Old With Brain Tumour Managed to Stay Alive to Give Birth: ‘Death Happens in the Blink of an Eye’

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4/27/2019|Updated: 2/12/2022

A 19-year-old woman with a malignant brain tumor who managed to stay alive long enough to give birth died on April 21, her family said in a Facebook post.

“This morning shortly before 4 a.m., Dana left us to be with the lord,” Dana Scatton’s family said on the Facebook page, Pray for Dana.

Venus Upadhayaya

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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.

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