Olympic skater Scott Hamilton has undergone chemotherapy and surgeries to fight testicular cancer and back-to-back bouts with brain tumors.
But when he found out the brain tumor returned a third time, Hamilton felt impressed by the Holy Spirit to do things a little bit differently and as a result, he saw the tumor shrink by more than 45 percent.
The born-again Christian told PEOPLE magazine that physicians told him in 2016 that a pituitary tumor in his brain had returned for the third time.
However, unlike in years past Hamilton decided to “just go home and get strong.”
“When they gave me the diagnosis, they said, it’s back,” he told PEOPLE. “And so they brought in this guy, a really young, talented surgeon, and he said, ‘We could do the surgery again. It’d be complicated, but we’ve got really talented people here that we could bring in, and I know we could pull it off if that’s an option for you.'”
Hamilton shared that as the physician was talking, his mind drifted through his battles with cancer.
In 1977, he lost his mother to breast cancer telling CBN, “It changed my life forever.”
Then in 1997, the ice skating legend battled
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