3-Year-Old Cancer Patient From San Diego County Needs Help

OCEANSIDE, CA -- At just three years old, Emma Craig of Oceanside is fighting for her life. The toddler was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma after doctors found a tumor in her brain, according to a GoFundMe page set up for the young girl.

Loved ones are asking the public's help in raising $20,000 to help Emma and her family as they battle the disease.

The GoFundMe page said a surgical team was able to successfully remove the tumor but that it left her with "Akenetic Mustism: no real motor-skills unless caused by pain or hypertonia, and no speech. The mutism itself is very odd. It’s not that she can’t move or talk, like stroke victims, it’s more that she doesn’t care to."

In the latest update posted on the fundraising page, loved ones wrote that Emma is currently undergoing chemotherapy but that it's "extremely taxing" on her young body.

"There had been no real advancement in speech whatsoever, but she is moving her arms and legs around a lot more as well as tracking things with her eyes," the GoFundMe page said. From time to time we can get her to giggle."

"Keep your fingers crossed for chemo," the page read. "It’s a very scary road considering the amount of therapy she has to go through."

As of Monday, the fundraising page received more than $13,000 in donations.

For more information about Emma or to help, go to gofundme.com.

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