Sabina McMahon Releases Debut Album at 17 as Osteosarcoma Battle Enters 5th Relapse
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Updated · CNN · Aug 22
Sabina McMahon Releases Debut Album at 17 as Osteosarcoma Battle Enters 5th Relapse
1 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 22
Summary
August 21 brought the release of Sabina McMahon’s debut album, “forget me not,” after she finished final vocals in Columbus in June while preparing for more treatment.
McMahon, 17, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at 12 and recently left a Cleveland clinical trial almost immediately to restart chemotherapy aimed at shrinking aggressive lung tumors.
Her family moved to Ohio so she could be treated at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, extending years of cross-country care that began after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy first put her cancer into remission.
Music has become both an outlet and a mission for McMahon, who says she wants children listening from hospital beds to hear someone who understands their experience.
Her story also underscores a broader funding gap: pediatric cancer research gets just 4 cents of every federal research dollar, a cause McMahon now publicly advocates.