Port Washington native turns brain cancer battle into mission to give back

Port Washington native turns brain cancer battle into mission to give back

While many families were preparing Thanksgiving dinner in 2024, Johnny Nahas was being wheeled into an operating room for emergency brain surgery. Just hours earlier, the 28-year-old Port Washington native had learned that a tumor was growing on his brainstem — a life-threatening diagnosis that would set him on a yearlong journey through surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and recovery. Today, roughly a year later, Nahas is cancer-free, back at wor…