BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. It is the month where we all go “gold” in honor of those that have battled cancer and in memory of those that have died from cancer.
he Friday Night Locker Room’s Orville Susong and Steve Wilson will recognize one cancer patient at each of their football games during the month of September. The individual will be recognized with a video that will be shown during the broadcast.
Susong and Wilson will also show images and talk about the person throughout the game.
To kick off Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Wilson sat down and talked with two pediatric cancer survivors from Brevard County, Sydney Creel, a graduate of Titusville High School, and Julie Spurlock, a graduate of Merritt Island High School.
Creel, now 21 years old, was diagnosed with cancer at age seven. She was found to have a brain tumor between the brain stem and spinal cord. Two-thirds of her life has been consumed with cancer treatments.
Spurlock, now 22 years old, was diagnosed with Very-High-Risk, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (VHS ALL) at age 13. After a three-year battle with VHS ALL, she defeated the dreaded disease, only to relapse at age 16, this time with Pre-B ALL.
