That conversation inspired Al Lupiano to do some research. “Other than that, we don’t have any experience to link us together.” Angela DeCellis and her husband, Matt, and their friend Andrea Hoffman. “We kept saying, ‘Well, we grew up in the same township,’” Al Lupiano said. When Al Lupiano then revealed that his sister had glioblastoma, the doctor began peppering him with questions about what the three had in common, he recalled. It’s just like both of you being struck by lightning,’” Al Lupiano recalled. I don’t know if I have ever had another husband and wife who have an acoustic neuroma. “(The doctor) just looked at me and said, ‘I’ve been doing this a long time. Doctors thought it was benign at first, but the pathology results indicated otherwise, Al Lupiano recalled.Ī week later, the Lupianos were at a doctor’s appointment and mentioned Al Lupiano’s acoustic neuroma 20 years earlier. A scan revealed that she had a tumor on the left side of the brain that was 30 millimeters. “I was highly motivated to keep moving forward.” Brain tumor diagnosis within weeksĭeCillis started showing stroke-like symptoms and went to the hospital in August 2021. You have to find out if it’s something that’s going to affect my kids,’” Al Lupiano, 50, of Jamesburg, New Jersey, told TODAY. “We had talked about it from day one, that there’s something wrong here, and because of my sister’s background in medicine, she had said the same thing: ‘You need to figure this out. As DeCillis’ health declined, Al Lupiano started wondering why the three of them had brain tumors. Last year, his wife, Michele Lupiano, was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma and his sister, Angela DeCillis, was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor. He was successfully treated for it, though he has lingering side effects, including slight deafness, fatigue and dizziness. In 1999, Al Lupiano says he was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a type of benign brain tumor that grows on a nerve that runs from the brain to the inner ear.
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