8-year-old Kyler Buckner made Jeffersontown Police Chief for a day on Feb. 7, 2020
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8-year-old Kyler Buckner was made chief of the Jeffersontown Police Department for a day on Feb. 7, 2020.
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Doctors say there is no cure, no known effective treatment, and no child survives.Â
Kyler Buckner had been living with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DLPG), a rare pediatric cancer where a tumor spiders over the brain stem, making it inoperable.Â
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