When Billy and Stevee Fazenbaker’s daughter Fletcher was born in July 2022, they immediately knew something was wrong with the baby.

“When she came out, her head was very, very big,” Stevee Fazenbaker, 29, of Garrett County, Maryland, tells TODAY.com. “She was in critical condition right away.”

After two hospitals told the Fazenbakers that daughter Fletcher could not be treated, Dr. Aditi Bagchi recognized what type of brain tumor the infant had and knew how to treat her. Courtesy St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / CLEAR

Doctors performed an MRI, which revealed that Fletcher had a brain tumor so large that it made her head increase in size.

“The doctors were like, 'We’re so sorry, but there is nothing that we can do … we think you should go home (with her) on hospice and just en

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