>> They say I have a lazy tumor.
So it doesn't grow as quick I say am all right, I will take it.
You've got to have it tumor, I guess it's better if it's lazy.
>> When I was diagnosed
the small community that I live in in Tangier,
where I'm from, everybody came together and raise money.
Had a bank with Tangier had a what is it a relay or?
>> Yeah raised a relay.
>> Had a relay and just see in people care bout you,
you don't realize that you might mean as
much to people is you do and it's very humbling.
It's very humbling for sure.
I've had brain cancer since 2008,
on November is one asserted having headache.
I was seeing double vision drag in my leg.
One on right it would go up and I couldn't like keep it straight.
>> You remember our first oncology visit,
laid it out on the line that it's not much hope.
>> A doctor then you will eventually die to
minimize pain a doctor say that you just figure,
I'm never going to be able to do anything,
have children or anything.
We eventually went to
a different doctor one that was much more positive.
>> Then they refer to as up here to doctor Weingart
and become an up here for surgery ever since.
>> Courtney has a primary brain tumor and she's having
at least her third surgery for this problem and I've known her for
more than 10 years actually
and thus and she's actually done really well as you
continue to do great because of this unique mutation
in her tumor and so then suddenly that changed everything.
>> He discovered she had this mutation in a tumor called BRAF.
It kept growing back in
the same place near the surface of the brain.
It didn't infiltrate into the brain as
much as we normally expect for glioblastoma to do.
>> Very few of these kind of tumors have
that mutation so it's always been very focal, very localized,
almost pushing the brain away from that,
which makes removal of it much more
effective in terms of getting local control for her.
>> We started treatment with targeted therapy in the name of
those medicines are debrafenib
instrumented and she did well on them.
Her tumor shrank away over the course of
several years and she remained almost there
for several years and is now out
more than five years later and continue to do very well.
>> [inaudible]
>> But it's very tough to hear you've got cancer.
My 23-year-old head couldn't process it but it was
almost my point of view change from while to well.
>> Thank you.
>> Am still here after this many years
and I have so much to be thankful for if I was to die tomorrow.
>> Corny is an incredibly optimistic and bubbly person.
I think that really shows and I think,
most of all she has people and things she loves her garden,
her chicken, her son,
her husband and her parents and that really shows
through in her joy for living and joy for life.
>> Cashe a miracle we really he is,
as we had him in 2013,
he was born in,
he's the light of my life because I never thought I'd have
him so he's everything.
Where are you Cashe World come here.
We're talking about how much we loved you.
So basically I live for him.
I'm looking forward to just watching Cashe grow up
and he's my future.
I feel that's so really care about.