Please take a look at her story! Here's her viral video:
One of the strongest 7 year old's I know! #KatherineTheBrave is truly brave. Her fight and will to live has been so strong. She deserves so much more in life. #4percentisnotenough
Katherine the brave....Ellen you won't regret it! #katherinethebrave
I was touched by Katie's life story and have been following, rooting, and praying for her ever since. I met Katie only once as I was delivering a donation for a group along with a small gift from my family. She didn't know me. However, in just that very short time I met with her and her family, I felt I met the most loving and caring family. Katie gave me a hug and asked me when she would see me again. She kept waving goodbye as I left. She is the sweetest. I had to fight back tears. Ellen, please help spread the word about this childhood cancer. We need to help Katie and all the other children fighting this!
Please help get #KatherineTheBrave get her story out there and bring awareness to #DIPG. Because 4% for our children is no where near enough, they deserve so much more. Just look at this beautiful little girl who is fighting to live.. Katie and her family are one of the strongest and most amazing families. Please help them #ellen. ❤️
Ellen... Please help this little girl. She is fighting a battle no 7 year old kid should have to fight. She is amazing and her family is amazing... and they need you. I know if we reach you... you will help. Please.... This family deserves something good... and i know you would help. <3 #ellen #katherinethebrave
Please everyone!! Please vote! It is very quick to register and then vote!! Lets get Katherine's votes up and get her noticed by Ellen!! Please #ellendegeneres this family would love to meet you and spread awareness of DIPG to your viewers!!! Katherine is the strongest little girl who continues to fight every day!!!
To Ellen's show: this is a prevalent affliction with important awareness growing--CA Congressman Steve Knight introduced HRes586 last January for more consideration for low-survival rate cancers and years of life lost in the NCI research grant process, and the 4th week in May to be designated as DIPG Awareness Week. Over the decades, thousands of such children have died with little to no effort from our medical research system to save them. Thousands of families have learned that their child's life is just a number to a system that favors quick returns on investment dollars rather than the value of our children's lives and the longer-term value of finding a cure for cancer. Please have Katie on your show! Before my son died of DIPG, a friend tried to get his story on your show to no avail...please have Katie and her family on your show; thank you. You won't believe how this is tied into the larger issue of childhood cancer and the systematic neglect of medical research for them. You will be glad you helped raise awareness for DIPG xoxo
Our prayers are with you God Bless #KatherineTheBrave
Please Ellen help Katherine by making her wish to meet you come true. She has been through so much and keeps smiling even though she is scared. She does not have much time left. I have followed her story for a long time. I also followed Alex Shepard's story closely. He was so happy to be on your show. I am still in contact with his mom Aushna. Alex was a special kid. So is Katherine. These two precious children have impacted so many people their short lives. Katherine deserves to be happy in her last days. Thank you!!
This beautiful young girl deserves so much more than the diagnosis she was dealt. Please help her dreams come true.
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Please Ellen, make this precious child's wish come true. It would be so exciting for her, and would raise much needed awareness of the lack of funding for pediatric brain tumors. No child and no family should have to hear a diagnosis of a fatal disease with no treatment and no hope for survival. Please help!
Please help Katherine the Brave get her wishes. She is a beautiful girl wiith such a radiant smile, acknowledge her before this DIPG monster takes that from all. DIPG needs to be deafeated and without Foundations and Charities like the ChadTough Foundation this will not happen. The large Cancer societies and such only use 1-4% of their donations towards pediatric cancers including DIPG. I am proud to say I am a ChadTough Champion (RIP Chad Carr and keep those orange sunrises and sunsets coming) Looking forward to seeing Katherine on your show. Hugs to Katherine and my prayers continue daily for you, your family and the medical staff involved in your care.
Katie is such a brave little fighter. I think by Ellen making her dreams come true and shedding light on this horrible disease of DIPG would be such a wonderful and beautiful thing to bring awareness to this disease and other childhood cancers. Katie is such a brave and beautiful young lady. Ellen please pick Katherine The Brave <3!
Thinking of this sweet girl and her family <3 #KatherinetheBrave
Dear Ellen, I would like to thank you for your kindness in giving us the opportunity to share our stories here on ellenNation. There are so many stories out there that tug at my heart, but there is one in particular, Katherine the Brave, She really has really touched my heart in a big way. She has an incurable disease call D.I.P.G, short for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas. You see, Ellen, D.I.P.G. is a disease which strikes at the heart of childhood and it is a disease in desperate need of a cure. It is agressive and difficult to treat. These tumors are found in an area of the brainstem (the lowest, stem-like part of the brain) called the pons, which controls many of the body’s most vital functions such as breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate. Treatment for DIPG may include radiation therapy and experimental chemotherapy. Unfortunately, complete surgical removal is not an option in the treatment of these tumors, because of their location in the brainstem. Surgery in this part of the brain can cause severe neurological damage and affect the body’s most vital functions; only biopsies can be performed safely. Basically, Ellen, the prognosis for DIPGs remains very poor in children with this disease. They only live less than a year from when they were diagnosed. That is why it is so important for Katherine the Great have her wish come true. Time is running out for her. She has been so very brave through all of this. She is a real fighter. Please help make everyone aware of this devastating disease so there may be a cure someday and to help others overcome this terrible disease. Thank you again, Ellen for all you do for people. You are such an honorable person.
God Bless this beautiful, precious girl. Sending prayers to help this family in their most difficult time #KatherineTheBrave