Young and Dying: Veterans Are Getting Brain Cancer and Struggling to Get Benefits
12 Jan 2022
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
This investigation is a collaboration between Military.com and Public Health Watch.
The mesh cap that Noah Feehan wore nearly all day, every day, contained 18 terminals that delivered electrical pulses to his brain and the deadly tumor growing inside it.
Diagnosed with a form of cancer called glioblastoma in December 2020, Feehan, a 38-year-old Minnesota Air National Guard master sergeant, had vowed to do whatever it took to battle his illness even if it meant that, in addition to radiation and chemotherapy, he would wear the device 18 hours a day, sometimes enduring shocks so painful they forced him to his knees.
But the treatment triggered more than momentary pain. He stopped eating -- and smiling.
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