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Cancer sucks, but it didn't ruin Finley Brown's spirit.
The 6-year-old from the Bay Area was diagnosed with a rare childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, in June, according to "Today."
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Earlier this month, she received her last chemotherapy treatment but not before some local firefighters drove her to the clinic to do so.
LAST CHEMO BABY!!
Posted by A.J. Robinson Brown on Monday, December 21, 2015
"I'd never seen someone with such a big smile going to the hospital," Moraga-Orinda firefighter Lucas Lambert said. "I was having just as much fun as she was."
Brown met the firefighters over the summer at a festival.
"We've always taught our kids that whenever they see a fireman or a police officer or a soldier, it's nice to approach them and thank them for keeping us safe," her mother A.J. Brown said to "Today."
So when she saw the firefighters out this summer, she didn't hesitate to walk over and introduce herself, her younger brother and their baby sitter.
The group began talking and Brown told them about what she had endured over the previous month with her cancer diagnosis, Lambert said.
The firefighters were so inspired they started a fundraising drive to get Brown and her family to Disneyland, which they'll be visiting in April.
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