Overview
- Earlier this month a routine full-body MRI led Joe Amabile to announce an early-stage brain lesion discovered during follow-up scans.
- Doctors planned a craniotomy to remove and test the growth that reports described as a roughly “blueberry-sized” lesion.
- Amabile said on Tuesday that his original surgery date was pushed back one week after he changed hospitals and that the operation is now scheduled for next week.
- He and his wife Serena Pitt have kept fans informed on Instagram, posting a short haircut ahead of surgery and receiving wide messages of support from peers and followers.
- Final diagnosis and prognosis will depend on tissue testing after the craniotomy, since media reports calling the lesion a glioma and suggesting a favorable outlook are not yet confirmed.