Kathryn Stewart from Georgetown died in April 2022.

According to the obituary post from Gail Powell on Facebook yesterday, the girl passed away on 2 April. She lost her fight against cancer, which she had fought for most of her life.

In 2019, Kathryn shared her illness journey, which various media sources covered. It reportedly began when she was five years old. In June 2008, she had regular vomits for a few days.

Then, her mother felt something besides her stomach and thought it to be a hernia. After that, they paid a visit to their family doctor, who sent her to SickKids.

Extensive testing discovered that Kathryn had stage 4 neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer of the nervous system.

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In the coming months, she had several medical procedures and heavy pain medications, including five rounds of chemotherapy, an eight-and-a-half-hour surgery, a stem cell harvest and transplants, and fourteen radiation rounds.

Although the doctors declared Kathryn cancer-free after the treatments, it returned just after 16 months. The diagnosis caused her to go through another 24 rounds of chemo, radiation to her abdomen, and six rounds of immunotherapy.

After that, she endured numerous traditional and trial treatments and had multiple relapses.

Doctors couldn’t determine why Kathryn developed neuroblastoma as she didn’t have the genetic mutations associated with it. Moreover, they were unsure about the recurrence of the disease.