The heartbroken family of a six-year-old girl told she has 12 months to live have said she has been 'robbed of her childhood' by a rare form of incurable brain cancer. Lily McKelvey, six, from Essex, was diagnosed with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare tumour which develops in the brainstem, after she began violently vomiting in the mornings. Her parents Jack and Elizabeth are now desperately fundraising to send Lily to New York for a pioneering treatment which isn't available in the UK and may prolong the little girl's life. Lily's devastated aunt Lucy, 29, said the Covid-19 crisis has meant Lily may not be able to spend what could be her final year of Lily with friends and family, telling Stoke-on-Trent Live: 'The treatment in America can prolong her life so she will get to see her brother and spend time with her friends after this year, hopefully we can get out of the pandemic.'