•September 28, 2016•

Savannah Gray never gave up hope despite turning to hospice care when her cancer continued to spread.

Sadly, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer after visiting the gynecologist with severe pain. Gray thought the pain might be caused by a tubal pregnancy, but the diagnosis was far worse. She was transferred to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis when a biopsy revealed that her body was filled with cancer.

Unfortunately, doctors were unable to remove all the cancer during a six-hour surgery, her mother Sharon Hammack said. She underwent several rounds of chemotherapy treatment followed by a stem cell transplant, but it failed to keep her cancer at bay. While doctors told her there was nothing more they could do, she held out hope for more options.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.