Will Roberts is the face of what happens when you remake medicine the MAGA way, not all the ways we’ve tried that haven’t worked.
Roberts, 15, first became the face of a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer. He then became the face of the right to try experimental treatments and of the kindness of strangers — including those who were strangers to him, but not to most of us.
Now, thanks to donors and Trump administration officials, the teen from Ralph, Alabama, is in Santa Monica, California, where anexperimental treatmentwill hopefully make a difference in saving his life.
According to local outletAL.com, Will was the first child of Jason and Brittney Roberts, who are both employed with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation. They had already lost their second child, Darby Kate, shortly after birth because of heart issues in 2013.
But the family’s “relationship with Christ grew,” Jason told AL.com, and Will and another sister, Charlie, began growing up.
Then, in 2025, things took a turn.
“It started out as knee pain,” Will Roberts told the outlet. “The pain would come and go, so I would chalk it up to growing pains.”
It wasn’t: It was osteosarcoma, acancerof the bones. And while the prognosis was initially decent at a 70 percent survival rate, tests quickly moved that downward to 20 percent.
Even after chemotherapy and an operation to remove the middle part of his leg where the cancer was and reattach the remaining parts so that a prosthesis could be fitted, an aggressive tumor was found on his pelvis — and then began appearing throughout his body.
“It was like fighting a forest fire with a shovel,” said Jason.
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