SOUTHERN OREGON -- A Southern Oregon family is facing two cancer diagnoses at the same time, after what they describe as an ordinary life suddenly shifted in a matter of weeks.

Jake McRrae says everything changed when the couple’s 4-year-old son, Jamon, began complaining of headaches last month. What started as mild pain quickly escalated. After repeated emergency room visits and an MRI, doctors discovered a brain mass near his brainstem.

On October 8, the family learned the tumor was compressing critical structures. Less than a month later, on November 3, Jamon underwent a 15-hour brain surgery, far longer and more complex than the six hours doctors initially expected.

Surgeons could not remove the entire tumor. When pathology results came back on November 5, the diagnosis shifted from

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