His dad was actually diagnosed with some rare for a cancer a few years back and they were traveling back & forth out of state for treatments for awhile, he's okay now, but as soon as he got the "all clear", she got sick and was diagnosed with leukemia, she went into remission for awhile, but it came back last fall.
The whole area they're in (a mile or 2 up the road) seems to be one big "cluster fuck" of it over the last 10 years or so.