Second Chance of Utah Foundation Benefit Çoncert!

Neil's Foundation is having a benefit concert for a 9-year-old Provo girl, who has brain cancer.

JR Richards of the group Dishwalla will be performing on Monday, Oct. 26 at Utah Valley University.

We will be hosting a VIP dinner for 100 people on the night of the concert with a silent auction. At the VIP dinner, there will be a meet-and-greet with the musicians and we will be honoring Hannah and her family. If you want tickets to the MVP event it is $25 and includes dinner, meet and greeet and a concert ticket. Tickets for the concert are $15- $10 for students.

Here is some information on Hannah Laursen, the girl who we are doing the concert for.

Hannah is 9-years old and was spending this summer having fun with her mom and two sisters before starting the 4th grade. Every summer the girls go to Florida to visit Grandparents and other family.

This summer, about halfway through the trip, Hannah started having severe headaches that were eventually accompanied by fatigue and vomiting. The doctors said these were classic migraine headache symptoms, but decided to do a CT scan just to follow protocol. The scan revealed a mass in Hannah's brain located just above her hypothalamus.

As soon as the doctors saw the mass in Hannah's brain they arranged an ambulance to drive her to a children's hospital in Pensacola, FL. En route to Pensacola Hannah's heart started to race and then slow, which was a dangerous symptom of extreme pressure on her brain. Due to the increasing emergency, Hannah was picked up and flown the rest of the way to the hospital in a helicopter.

Upon arrival at the hospital Hannah was rushed into surgery. Over the next 6 days Hannah had 3 brain surgeries to relieve pressure on her brain and remove as much of the tumor as possible. A biopsy of the tumor revealed that it is a malignant and rapidly growing tumor.

Hannah has gone through 2 round of chemotherapy and is currently going in daily, Monday through Friday, for radiation treatments.Hannah's prognosis for the future is very good and she is attending school and gaining back a lot of her strength and energy.She will still have to go through at least one more surgery and will have to have hormone therapy for years to come.