Ayala, 32, was diagnosed December of 2015 with a rare tumor in her uterus. It spread to her ovaries and into the lining of her stomach. (Photo: Screengrab of Facebook video) 
 
 DALLAS, TEXAS - "Who says cancer and chemo have to get you down?" 
 
 That's a question Ana-Alecia Ayala asked and answered by having a dance party in her hospital room. She posted to Instagram and Facebook a video of herself and her "chemo buddy," Danielle Andrus, putting the "Juju on that chemo" as they danced to the song, "Juju On That Beat." In the first 19 hours after the video was posted to Facebook, it was viewed about 25,000 times. 
 
 Ayala, 32, was diagnosed in December of 2015 with a rare tumor in her uterus. It spread to her ovaries and into the lining of her stomach. Ayala, who is a mother of a 3-year-old, told KVUE she and her husband were trying for another baby before they found out about her diagnosis. 
 
 Weeks after the diagnosis, a surgery removed the majority of it. In July however, a new tumor popped up on her spleen, leading doctors to put her through a more aggressive chemo approach. This forced her to be in-patient for four days. 
 
 "In-patient treatment was rough at first," Ayala said. "Being away from our 3-year-old was the hardest part. We had her birthday party in my hospital room in July, and the nurses came in and sang to her." 
 
 Ayala met her dance partner in the video through a fitness group in 2015. 
 
 "She would come sit with me in my chemo session always bringing me entertainment -- magazines, arts and crafts. Things to keep me distracted," Ayala said. "But she loves a good dance party. We did a dance to Meghan Trainor's "Me Too" song last time, but never posted it online. This time she encouraged me to post it and everyone has been so sweet to share it and get it out there." 
 
 Ayala said as she continues her treatments, she hopes to inspire others to "not look at cancer as a death sentence and try to make the most of bad situations." 
 
 "I also want to encourage cancer patients loved ones to step out of their comfort zones (as Danielle did for me) and be silly, have a dance party, be present in the moment and have a great time," she said. "Laughter is the best medicine and I hope to make people smile, even at the expense of my bad dance moves." ||||| Ayala, 32, was diagnosed December of 2015 with a rare tumor in her uterus. It spread to her ovaries and into the lining of her stomach. (Photo: Screengrab of Facebook video) 
 
 The woman whose dance moves stole the hearts of so many on social media has lost her battle to cancer. 
 
 Ana- Alecia Ayala died Wednesday afternoon while at the hospital after her year-long battle with uterine sarcoma. 
 
 Ana- Alecia's sister tells News 8 she was surrounded by her family, loved ones and family priest at the time of her passing. 
 
 Ayala, 32, was diagnosed in December of 2015 with a rare tumor in her uterus. It spread to her ovaries and into the lining of her stomach. Ayala, who is a mother of a 3-year-old, told KVUE she and her husband were trying for another baby before they found out about her diagnosis. 
 
 Weeks after the diagnosis, a surgery removed the majority of it. In July however, a new tumor popped up on her spleen, leading doctors to put her through a more aggressive chemo approach. This forced her to be in-patient for four days. 
 
 "In-patient treatment was rough at first," Ayala said. "Being away from our 3-year-old was the hardest part. We had her birthday party in my hospital room in July, and the nurses came in and sang to her." 
 
 Ayala met her dance partner in the video through a fitness group in 2015. 
 
 "She would come sit with me in my chemo session always bringing me entertainment -- magazines, arts and crafts. Things to keep me distracted," Ayala said. "But she loves a good dance party. We did a dance to Meghan Trainor's "Me Too" song last time, but never posted it online. This time she encouraged me to post it and everyone has been so sweet to share it and get it out there." 
 
 Ayala said as she continues her treatments, she hopes to inspire others to "not look at cancer as a death sentence and try to make the most of bad situations." 
 
 "I also want to encourage cancer patients loved ones to step out of their comfort zones (as Danielle did for me) and be silly, have a dance party, be present in the moment and have a great time," she said. "Laughter is the best medicine and I hope to make people smile, even at the expense of my bad dance moves." 
 
 To continue to donate to her GoFundMe page click here. 
 
 She's dancing her way through chemo, through cancer, and right onto my show. pic.twitter.com/ZRf7YYErJl — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) November 1, 2016 
 
 Copyright 2016 WFAA ||||| PLANO — In a hospital room filled with signs of love, Julie Prater lay surrounded by friends, her husband, Luke, at her side and her day-old daughter, June Lane, in her arms, the infant she calls “our little miracle baby.” 
 
 Eight and a half weeks into her pregnancy, Julie was diagnosed with a growth on the frontal lobe of her brain, which doctors eventually determined to be the worst of the worst, a Grade 4 glioblastoma, the most malignant brain tumor in humans. 
 
 The discovery came early one morning in late May, after Julie awoke to the sound of her year-old son Judd crying in his room. As she rose to check on him, she suffered a full-body seizure. Luke heard her scream and fall, rushed to her and then called 911. Minutes later, Julie was in the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Plano, where she works as a registered nurse in the nursery. 
 
 “That’s when they found the mass on my motor strip,” the part of the frontal lobe that controls muscle movement, Julie said. The emergency room doctors referred her to Dr. Bruce Mickey, a neurosurgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a specialist in intracranial tumors. 
 
 Initially, doctors thought they were dealing with a low-grade glioma tumor and told Julie to come back in three weeks. When she returned, the tumor had grown by 20 percent. 
 
 “We were still hopeful it was a Grade 3, but Dr. Mickey was pretty sure it was a Grade 4,” the most malignant category, Julie said, “but we had to wait for the pathology report. Sure enough, it was a Grade 4 glioblastoma.” 
 
 She knew she needed surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible. Her pregnancy added another layer of concern. 
 
 “We prayed about it, and we talked about it, and we decided to wait as long as we could” for the baby to continue growing, Julie said. 
 
 “My surgery went as well as it could, but there are always cells left,” she said. “And on Sept. 6, I got really sick with a stomach bug. I threw up all my seizure medicine, and I started having grand mal seizures.” 
 
 She spent a week in the hospital, but the seizures continued and were getting worse. Two weeks later, doctors scanned her brain again. 
 
 “They said, ‘Now we see growth. We really think you should go ahead with radiation,’” Julie said. 
 
 The baby had had three additional weeks to grow, but things were still precarious. 
 
 “We didn’t want to radiate her because it increases the chance of childhood cancer slightly, like 2 or 3 percent,” Julie said. 
 
 But without the radiation, there was a chance neither mother nor daughter would survive the pregnancy. Ultimately, she made the decision to go through with it. Twice, during surgery and later when Julie suffered the grand mal seizure, doctors worried about a miscarriage. 
 
 “But [June] made it through, twice,” Julie said. “We’ve had a lot of prayers, a lot of people helping, and we couldn’t have done this without everyone, the [obstetrician] here, my oncologist and my brain trust at UT Southwestern. 
 
 “They’ve really worked hard to do what’s best for me and best for her.” 
 
 And on Monday morning, little June Lane was born at Presbyterian Plano, 19.6 inches long, weighing 6 pounds. 
 
 “She came out pink and screaming,” her mom said, smiling. “They checked her out and said she looks great. 
 
 “God was definitely with us through this.” 
 
 Along the way, though, that positive ending to the pregnancy was far from certain. 
 
 “There weren’t recommendations, but there were definitely discussions about how the majority of people who have this situation terminate” their pregnancies, Julie said. “We asked if there was one patient who had gone through the same thing, and there was. So we asked if I could speak with her. She agreed and she really helped.” 
 
 The woman was a doctor, about Julie’s age, and had been diagnosed with a glioblastoma at about the same point in her pregnancy. Doctors discovered it after she, too, suffered a seizure. 
 
 “She was just like real positive, and it was just what I needed to hear,” Julie said. “She’s 21/2 years out, and she’s doing great.” 
 
 The Praters embraced that optimism as they moved forward. 
 
 “When I was diagnosed, it was pretty surreal,” Julie said. “‘I have cancer? I’m 32. I’m pregnant. What’s going on?’ 
 
 “Now I’m bound and determined not to be depressed. I’m not going to be in the fetal position, crying in my bedroom. Some days are better than others. But this day is good!” 
 
 Within the next week, Julie will have another brain scan and will probably start chemotherapy. 
 
 “It’s on to the next step,” she said. “You do chemo for a year, as long as it’s working. If it isn’t working, they try something else. And the chemo is a pill — it’s supposed to be not so horrible.” 
 
 The treatment isn’t a sure thing, though. 
 
 “The brain is hard to get to with drugs,” Luke said, “so some people it doesn’t help so much.” 
 
 “And some people it helps a lot,” Julie quickly added. The doctors “are real positive, but we’ll just have to watch and see.” 
 
 The location of her tumor has the potential to significantly limit her muscle control if it grows into the motor strip, she said. 
 
 “So I told Luke I hope it grows out.” 
 
 Still, for this young woman and her young family, the tumor has changed expectations. 
 
 “I was going to get married and have babies and everything would be hunky-dory,” Julie said. “It’s pretty eye-opening that it isn’t guaranteed.” 
 
 But the hard reality hasn’t dimmed the couple’s hopes. 
 
 “We’re not all gloom and doom,” said Luke, and the smiles and frequent laughter in the hospital room backed him up. 
 
 They’ve seen the best in people over the last seven months, the family and friends who come and stay with Julie, the co-workers who gather round her and coo and fuss over little June Lane. 
 
 Through that, the Praters found their own prescription for the future. 
 
 “We live each day to the fullest,” Julie said. 
 
 HOW TO HELP: Couple’s website 
 
 The Praters have created a website — head4hope.org — to raise money for cancer research at UT Southwestern and to tell their story.
– The internet is mourning a woman who danced into the hearts of many when a video of her dancing in a hospital gown went viral. Ana-Alecia Ayala died Wednesday after a yearlong cancer battle, WFAA reports. The Dallas woman gained fame in October after posting a video to social media showing her and a friend, in Ayala's hospital room, dancing to "Juju on That Beat" around medical equipment, Ayala in her hospital gown. It became known as "Juju on That Chemo." Ayala told KVUE at the time that her dance partner was a friend she met through a fitness group the year prior, who often came to her chemo treatments and tried to keep her positive. Ayala, 32, found out she had a rare uterine tumor in Dec. 2015 while trying for a second baby with her husband. It had spread to her ovaries and the lining of her stomach, and though most of it was removed within weeks in a surgery, a new tumor appeared on her spleen in July. When her video went viral, Ayala said she hoped to encourage others fighting cancer to "be silly, have a dance party, be present in the moment, and have a great time. Laughter is the best medicine, and I hope to make people smile, even at the expense of my bad dance moves." She leaves behind a husband and 3-year-old daughter.