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SOUTHERN OREGON ( KDRV ) -- 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 McRae 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 cam

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