Michael Strahan has been noticeably absent from his hosting gig on Good Morning America this week and it may have something to do with his daughter, Isabella.
Whit Johnson stepped in for Michael on Wednesday and Thursday's shows at a time when his teen is facing a major milestone in her cancer battle.
Isabella, 19, is expected to undergo her last chemotherapy session at the start of summer and Michael will want to be right by her side when it happens.
At the end of May, Isabella updated fans on her Vlog when she threw a belated 19th birthday celebration for herself as she missed her big day last October while recovering from emergency brain surgery.
She also revealed on May 21, that she had undergone her third round of chemotherapy and that her next would be her last.
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"Now I only have one round [of chemotherapy] to go, which is exciting," Isabella said from her hospital bed at Duke University Hospital with her twin sister, Sophia and dad, Michael by her side.
"I'm kind of scared, once I'm done, how I'm going to go back to normal life," she confessed. "Because I feel like there's always going to be another treatment or something I have to do. But that's a later problem. Otherwise, I'm doing good."
She was initially going to have six rounds of chemo but it was reduced to four.
It was at the end of last year, that Michael stepped away from his hosting duties to take care of a personal situation in his family.
In a joint interview with Isabella, they then revealed she was battling cancer.
Isabella, who started college at University of Southern California in Los Angeles last fall, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in late October.
Doctors discovered a fast-growing 4-centimeter tumor – larger than a gold ball – in the back of her head and she underwent emergency surgery to remove it.
Isabella has been undergoing treatment since the beginning of the year with the support of her family all the way.
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