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Diekmeiers Leave Heidelberg Team After 5% Prognosis, Pursue Further Care for Delani, 14

Doctors now estimate about a five percent chance of survival, urging palliative care.

Overview

  • The family says they left the Heidelberg medical team after being told no further surgeries would be performed and that treatment should be palliative.
  • Delani recently underwent a second lung operation reportedly involving about 50 cuts, and the benefit remains unclear.
  • Her cancer is currently described as confined to the lungs, where metastases are growing despite earlier chemotherapy and surgeries.
  • Doctors, as relayed by the family, have said she is unlikely to survive the year, with survival odds put at roughly five percent.
  • Mother Dana reports spending more than €10,000 on novel medications and continues to seek additional treatment options.