HARRISBURG, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - An 8th-grade girl in Harrisburg continues to fight tumors and their side effects. Life threw her a curveball last summer.

On Saturday morning, Megan Fry wheeled over food to attach to her daughter Sopheyah Mills’ feeding tube. It was a calm day so far, but the day before, they needed to take Sopheyah to the hospital in the ambulance. Just a few years ago, this sight would have been foreign to their family.

“My brother, when he was 25, was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, which is kidney cancer,” Fry explained. “In somebody that age, they were like, ‘Yeah, you shouldn’t be getting kidney cancer right now.’ So they did genetic testing.”

After learning of her brother’s rare SDHB gene mutation, family members were tested. Megan and three of her kids

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