DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Duke graduate and Durham native is making a $250,000 donation to The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke in memory of her parents.

"Durham and Duke both are my home. Both of my parents worked here and helped people here," said Rebecca Feinglos.

She was just five years old when her mother, Susan, was diagnosed with glioblastoma.

"I, as a five-year-old, had absolutely no idea, like, what that really meant," said Feinglos.

Susan received experimental treatments at Duke and survived eight years; the five-year survival rate for glioblastoma is just 5%.

"I don't think I knew my mom was going to die until she died," said Feinglos.

However, she said it wasn't until her father's death in 2020, 18 years later, that she started to confront repressed feeling

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