September 19, 2025
13-Year-Old Beats Deadly Brain Cancer Against All Odds
World’s First: Belgian Boy, Once Given No Chance of Survival, Becomes Cancer-Free After Rare Brain Tumor Vanishes There are stories that feel almost too miraculous to believe, the kind that restore faith in what science, medicine, and the resilience of the human spirit can achieve. The journey of Lucas Jemeljanova, a 13-year-old boy from Belgium, is exactly that kind of story. When Lucas was just six years old, his family’s world collapsed after doctors delivered the kind of news no parent should ever have to hear. He was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, one of the most