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The Sinise family’s nightmare began in the summer of 2018, a period that delivered not one, but two devastating blows that would test their fortitude beyond measure. Just three months after Mac’s mother, Moira, received a shocking diagnosis of stage three breast cancer—a battle she would thankfully conquer—the family was plunged into an even rarer and more terrifying ordeal. On August 8th, Mac Sinise, then just 28, was given a diagnosis that shattered their world: Chordoma. This isn’t a common illness; it’s an exceptionally rare form of bone cancer, striking only about one in a million people annually, making Mac’s battle a lonely and arduous one against an almost unknown enemy. Unlike Moira’s successful remission, Mac’s Chordoma proved to be a far more aggressive and relentless adversary, a slow, insidious invader that began its assault on his nervous system, defying every conventional treatment effort. The insidious nature of this disease, often originating in the spine or base of the skull, meant that his fight was not just against cancer, but against a creeping loss of his own body’s functions, a quiet horror unfolding behind closed doors.
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