'He was one of the most 肉親，親類d and gracious people I've known': 大統領 Obama 嘆く／悼むs the 悲劇の loss of his former 補佐官 after he died of 癌 老年の just 32
- Brandon Lepow 戦う／戦いd a rare type of 白血病 since September 2013
- After ten 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of chemo, he went into remission in 2014 - but relapsed earlier this year and passed away Monday night
- His wife, Theresa, 供給するd updates for family and friends, who 含むd several White House 従業員s, on Facebook
- The 大統領 called his and Theresa's 関係?'one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な love stories' and said he and Michelle had '激しい hearts'
Former White House 補佐官 Brandon Lepow passed away from 癌 on Monday night at the age of 32.
The Houston native, who （選挙などの）運動をするd for 大統領 Obama and then worked in the White House for four-and-a-half years, was 診断するd with 白血病 in 2013. In 2014 he went into remission, but relapsed earlier this year after his 団体／死体 拒絶するd a 茎・取り除く 独房 移植（する）.
Both his grief-stricken wife, Theresa Lapow, and the 大統領 have 解放（する）d 声明s 嘆く／悼むing his loss.?
He'll be 行方不明になるd: Brandon Lepow (中心) died this week after a two-year 戦う／戦い with 白血病; his wife Theresa (権利) and 大統領 Obama (left) 解放（する）d 声明
In love: The 32-year-old was 診断するd in 2013 while planning his wedding and decided to move up the 儀式 so he and Theresa could get married before his second 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of chemo
専門家 docs: He underwent ten 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of chemo in all, traveling from Washington, D.C. to his hometown of Houston to be 扱う／治療するd at M.D. Anderson 癌 中心
Brandon and Theresa were happily engaged and living in Washington, D.C. in September of 2013. They were making 計画（する）s for their April 2014 wedding when Brandon, then a Facebook 従業員, began struggling with 苦痛 in his chest and 支援する.
He was 診断するd with T-独房 激烈な／緊急の lymphoblastic 白血病, a very rare 癌, and すぐに flew home to Houston to get 治療 at M.D. Anderson 癌 中心. After the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of chemo, he and Theresa decided to bump up their wedding and get married 権利 away.
'People at the hospital kept calling me his friend,' Theresa told Cosmopolitan.com?in an interview about their 旅行?last year. 'いつかs it felt as if they weren't 存在 as 来たるべき with me as they would have been if I had been his wife. So we said, "Let's just do this."'
A few days before they were scheduled to tie the knot on October 24, 2013, Brandon's hair started to 落ちる out, and he decided to shave the 残り／休憩（する） of it off before his big day. にもかかわらず the emotional moment, the day went off without a hitch.?
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Heartbreaking: Theresa (pictured with Brandon at the White House) said she lost her best friend
Going 平和的に: After his 団体／死体 拒絶するd a 茎・取り除く 独房 移植（する）, his health 拒絶する／低下するd quickly and in September he stopped 治療
Afterward, he went through nine more 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of chemo before he was finally in remission, and the two thought that the nightmare was behind them.
Then, in 早期に 2015, Brandon relapsed. The couple had moved to San Francisco, but they now returned to Houston for more 治療. によれば the Los Angeles Times, Brandon got a 茎・取り除く 独房 移植（する） in April, but by summer he 設立する out that his 団体／死体 was 拒絶するing it. In August, he 契約d 肺炎.
After several very difficult months, Brandon decided to stop 治療 in 早期に September.
'To say that Brandon is a 闘士，戦闘機 doesn't even begin to explain the strength and courage he has,' Theresa wrote earlier this week, before his passing, on a Facebook page created to update his family and friends. 'I am so proud of him in the way he has chosen to leave this world. Under his own 条件.'
She explained that though he wasn't in any more 苦痛, he was sleeping all the time at the end. On Monday night, he passed away, and yesterday a 荒廃させるd Theresa wrote: 'Today is the first day without my best friend. My heart is broken but I know now he is 解放する／自由な.'?
Sad story: Theresa said she was proud that Brandon chose to leave this world... under his own 条件'
井戸／弁護士席-loved: The 大統領 (pictured with Brandon, second from 権利) said that many of the former 補佐官's old White House 同僚s traveled to Houston to visit him
大統領 Obama 問題／発行するd a 声明 同様に, 賞賛するing Brandon for the work he did on the （選挙などの）運動をする 追跡する and in the White House.
'Last night, we lost Brandon after a long 戦う／戦い with 白血病,' the 大統領 wrote. 'It's a testament to his dedication to others that, over the past few months, more than fifty of his White House 同僚s traveled to spend time with him and support his family as he underwent 治療 in Texas.?
'We all have 激しい hearts today - and all of us, Michelle and I 含むd, 株 our 弔慰s and all our support with Brandon's family, his legion of friends, and his wonderful and 勇敢な wife, Theresa. Theirs is one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な love stories.?
'They, in many ways, kept the 残り／休憩（する） of us going. And Theresa will always be a part of our family.'
He 追加するd: '[Brandon was] one of the most unfailingly 肉親，親類d and gracious people I've had the 栄誉（を受ける） to know,' the 大統領 wrote. 'He was someone that any American could be proud to have working on their に代わって.'?
