Families fight for further research on incurable kids' brain cancer
Imagine taking a sick child to hospital and being told the best thing you can do is go home and make memories.
That's the reality for the parents of around 20 Australian children diagnosed with incurable brain cancer every year.
"I still recall it every day, first thing I think about when I wake up, the last thing I think about when I sleep," dad Tamer told A Current Affair.
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Families take their call for more research to the top. A Current Affair
DIPG is an incurable brain cancer. A Current Affair
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) is an aggressive, inoperable children's cancer that attacks the brain stem.
There may be no cure but these families are not taking no for an answer.
Families have joined forces with cancer research Professor Matt Dun to take their case to the top - Health Minister Mark Butler.
"We're trying to buy time while we're waiting for someone to do better than we can do," Dun said.
"All DIPG children deserve a chance."
Find out more on Dun's charity called Run DIPG which has raised over $2 million for research here.
Watch the stories of families impacted by DIPG in the video player above.
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