5 years after brain tumor diagnosis, woman organizes cancer fundraiser to thank Henry Ford Hospital

FOX 2 – Five years ago Molly Marco was on enjoying her favorite coffee at a Downtown Detroit coffee house when suddenly she didn’t feel like herself.

“I felt dizzy, fell off the chair,” she said. “(EMS came) they pretty much told me I would be to taken to emergency and tested for either a seizure or a stroke – and I thought it was a joke.”

The seemingly healthy 35-year-old was diagnosed with a grade three cancerous brain tumor.

“You think cancer happens to other people,” she said.

Molly received her medical treatment at Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital. It included surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

“Henry Ford Hospital and Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, we’re a place of hope always pushing the envelope of what we can do,”  said Dr. James Snyder, neuro-oncologist. “And it always comes back to the patient.”

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