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Nevaeh Denine is battling cancer again, and wants your well wishes

A little girl from the Goulds are of St. John's who's been raising money for pediatric cancer patients is once again fighting cancer.

'It just helps with your everyday ... dealing with the cancer,' says Nevaeh's great-aunt

Nevaeh Denine, 6, continues to get tests as she battles Neuroblastoma for a second time. (Facebook)

A little girl from the Gouldsarea of St. John'swho's been raising money for pediatric cancer patients is once again fighting cancer, and wants your well wishes in letters and cards.

At the age of three, NevaehDeninewas diagnosed with a rare form of cancercalledNeuroblastoma.

Following her treatment, scans had been clean, but the family found out last week the girl's cancer had returned.

Nevaeh Denine wanted to start a lemonade stand to help other families struggling with pediatric cancer.

"It's a huge shock to the family and my niece Holly [Denine's mother] is having a real, real rough time with it,"Barb Evans, Denine's great-aunt, told CBC's St. John's Morning Show.

"It's devastating to the family, there's no question."

In 2014,DeninestartedNevaeh'sLemonade Stand as a way ofgiving back to her community.The stand has since raisedmore than $60,000 dollars over two years.

Kind words

A few days ago, the family posted the girl'smailing addresson Facebook. The response so far has been overwhelming.

"She's gotten a lot of mail, a lot of cards, she's even gotten flowers delivered to her door," said Evans, addingit's best to mail letters and gifts rather than drop them off in person so it's not as intrusive to the family at this difficult time.

It kind of helps when you see someone's nice words to say, "We're there, if you need anything we're there for you."- Barb Evans

"She loves to get cards, she loves to open them, she thinks people really careand she really, really likes to get them."

Evans said the whole family has been enjoying her great-nieces's wish.

"It just helps with your everyday, like with coping with the whole issue of dealing with the cancer and getting through day for day for day, and that's how it's been," she said.

"It kind of helps when you see someone's nice words to say, 'We're there, if you need anything we're there for you.'"

The family has received mailfrom people and schools across Canada, including a school in New Brunswick where every child in the school made a card and sent it along with a care package.

"They had gifts for her, it was everything included in that box, even clothing items they had pyjamas for her and where she lost her hair, they had headbands for her to cover her head," said Evans.

"So, it's really, really thoughtful it helps when you're trying to cope with this."

Navaeh'sprognosis

At the moment, the family doesn't have many details about the cancer relapse and the future remains uncertain.

Denine began further testing at the Janeway Children's HospitalTuesday to determine theseverity of the diagnosisand a treatment plan.

"We don't really have any answers yet, we just know it's back," said Evans.

Denine has spent a good part of her life in hospitals because of her disease, but Evans said the girlunderstands what's going on.

"She can actually tell you different things about her chemotherapy, she can tell you different things about her cancer and she always wants to learn."

Evans said Denine's mom has every card kept and and she still goes through them to read the messages.