Nicole Hazen, wife of Arizona Diamondbacks general manager, dies at 45

Nicole Hazen, the spouse of Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen, has died from complications owing to glioblastoma, a variety of mind most cancers. She was 45.

She was diagnosed with most cancers far more than two several years back. The household has four sons, Charlie, John, Teddy and Sam. The group despatched a assertion confirming that Hazen died on Thursday.

“Nicole lived her lifestyle and cherished her family members with fierceness and devotion,” the Hazen household said in a assertion. “She used just about every day in the service of some others as a mom, wife and educator advocating for goodness. From our household, we remain for good grateful for the like, aid and random functions of kindness bestowed upon us for the past two many years and 4 months. We would not have been able to walk down this highway, with her, with out the aid and generosity of our neighborhood.”

Mike Hazen announced he was taking a partial leave of absence final calendar year to assist choose treatment of his spouse and family members.

Glioblastoma is a kind of most cancers that happens in the brain and spinal twine, according to the Mayo Clinic.

It’s the form of most cancers that plagued late senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy as properly as Beau Biden, the late son of President Joe Biden.

The precise underlying induce of glioblastoma is not known in most circumstances, but in some, it is really linked to genetic syndromes: neurofibromatosis variety 1, Turcot syndrome and Li Fraumeni syndrome, in accordance to NIH.