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In the meantime, she has a few words of advice for other parents.

“If it stops growing with the chemo, then after chemo is over we can assess where she is at and what is going on,” Alexis Stadler said. Kinsley is now undergoing chemotherapy to prevent her tumor from growing, but her mom doesn’t know her daughter’s chance of survival after that. “We don’t have a ton of answers of what a prognosis looks like so we are just taking things as it comes,” Alexis Stadler said. Researchers say we need additional data to figure out why the illness is more prevalent in children. Whereas for adults, it’s the 10th leading cause of cancer death. While that percentage is small, the American Cancer Institute reports brain tumors are now the leading cause of cancer death in children. A recent study found that brain tumors in children have increased by. “I am not one to take no for an answer when I think something is really wrong.”Īs it turns out, Kinsley had a brain tumor.

“They said her brain scans two years ago were completely clear, and there is no way there is anything going in there,” Alexis Stadler said. Kinsley was born with two genetic disorders, and then in May, her mom noticed something else was wrong, but her doctors didn’t believe it was anything major. Her mom Alexis Stadler says she has been through a lot for her age.