Northern Colorado girl becomes first-known childhood brain stem cancer survivor, example to future cases

Nathan Dahl, a physician at Children’s Hospital Colorado [and associate professor of pediatrics] who helped oversee Hadley’s care, said the difficult prognosis reflected what medical experts knew at the time. “All the signs that we had pointed to this being really, really, really grim,” Dahl said. “It’s something that there’s been maybe a handful of cases reported worldwide ever.”