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Torn parents shared the last moments they spent with their five year old daughter while they were comforting her hours before dying of an aggressive brain tumor.
Zoey Daggett, of Fairport in New York, was diagnosed DIPG is a type of high-grade brain tumor that tends to develop rapidly and is more likely to spread to other parts of the brain or the spinal cord.
Zoey's diagnosis meant cancer was inoperable
The picture shows parents Ben and Casey Doggett holding Zoey home on July 4th.
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Few hours after taking the picture, Zoey died at the age of five .
A Facebook page titled "Zoey's Fight" – renamed Zoey's Light – was created shortly after being diagnosed with DIPG, to tell its battle against the disease.
It is also the place where those who followed his fight learned of his death.
"At 4:17, on July 4, the firecracker of a girl named Zoey Catherine Daggett finally received peace and left her beautiful body
Brain Tumors
Brain tumors are the biggest killer of children and adults under 40 years of age.
Nearly 11,000 people Every year, a primary brain tumor is diagnosed, including 500 children and young people – that is, 30 people every day.
Every year, more than 5,000 people die from a brain tumor
20 years – the highest of all cancers.
Only 19% of adults survive five years after diagnosis.
Brain tumors are the leading cause of preventable or treatable blindness in children. suffer long-term disability as healthy children.
This represents an additional 20,000 years of life for all children diagnosed each year.
"She arrived in this world on 17/10 at 21:17 with a lot of agitation and she left as fast, just a shy day of 2 years since her first DIPG symptoms appeared.
"Zoey was full of life, sperm and happiness and we know that she was loved by so many people. We ask your thoughts during this time of sadness. "
A GoFundMe page was set up following Zoey's diagnosis which has so far raised $ 45,240 dollars, with a target of $ 120,000.
You can visit the Zoey & # 39 Facebook page Fight here
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