article_snippet.sent: A Massachusetts boy who received more than 150,000 letters and packages after requesting 'a box of cards' for Danny Nickerson sixth birthday has died after Danny Nickerson battle with a rare brain tumor.
article_snippet.sent: Danny Nickerson, six, who loved to receive mail, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in October 2013. 
article_snippet.sent: Danny Nickerson (left), 6, of Massachusetts died of an inoperable brain tumor after a 'courageous 18-month battle' last July, Danny Nickerson (left), 6, of Massachusetts request for a 'box of cards' for Danny Nickerson (left), 6, of Massachusetts went viral and Danny Nickerson (left), 6, of Massachusetts received more than 150,000 cards from around the world (above His mother, Carley Nickerson last summer with the mail Danny Nickerson (left), 6, of Massachusetts received) '
article_snippet.sent: His mother, Carley Nickerson was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glimoma (DIPG) in October 2013 and fought through 33 radiation treatments .
article_snippet.sent: According to ABC News, doctors said that less than ten per cent of children with the disease, called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glimoma, live longer than 18 months.
highlights_snippet.sent: Danny Nickerson was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 2013 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Danny Nickerson mother, Carley Nickerson, shared the news of Danny Nickerson passing on Friday .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Danny Nickerson fought through 33 radiation treatments and two clinical trials which consisted of chemotherapy during Danny Nickerson battle with DIPG .