KSNT: Shawnee County family remembers daughter during brain cancer awareness month
By Drew Gill
May is National Brain Cancer Awareness Month and one local family is reflecting on the memory of their late daughter.
Morgan Kottman was just 15 years-old when she died from a rare and incurable brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). This November will be the 10th anniversary of her death.
Her mom, Christine Kottman, says she still thinks about Morgan’s sense of humor.
“She was very bubbly and funny. Laughed a lot,” Christine said.
Dr. Kevin Ginn is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. He was also Morgan’s doctor. He says DIPG is very aggressive and usually only affects children.
“DIPG specifically,” Ginn said, “is one of the tumors that from the first day I meet the family I have to tell them their child is most likely going to die within two years.”
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