Boy who dubbed tumour ‘Frank’ now cancer-free

A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy who nicknamed his brain tumour “Frank” and whose mother launched an online auction to help pay for his medical bills is now cancer-free, his mother said yesterday.

Boy who dubbed tumour ‘Frank’ now cancer-free

“Frank is dead!” an elated Tiffini Dingman-Grover said by telephone from her Sterling home as the family prepared to head to a press conference in Washington DC.

David Dingman-Grover had most of his tumour removed on February 2 at the Skull Base Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. The family learned the results of a biopsy on the tumour at midnight Monday. The family was crowded around the phone waiting for the call from David’s surgeon, his mother said.

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