He’s 20. Has brain cancer. And is caught in the crossfire between the FDA and a renegade doctor

The dizziness didn’t much worry Neil Fachon. Neither did the double vision. He was recovering from concussions he had sustained while playing sports, and the symptoms weren’t enough to keep him from his engineering classes at Northeastern University in Boston.

Then came some inexplicable struggles with handwriting and swallowing.

Doctors scheduled an MRI. On March 4, his life came unhinged.

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