CORVALLIS — Jenessa “Boey” Byers, the Corvallis girl fighting cancer who was featured on national television, has died. She was 8 years old.

Friends of the family told the Corvallis Gazette-Times that she died Friday at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, where she was being treated for pneumonia. Boey had been recovering from two surgeries, one to remove a brain tumor and one to repair a fractured hip.

Boey’s battle with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of childhood cancer, became national news this past summer when ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” went to Corvallis to build her family a new home.

Boey is survived by her parents, Rob and Rachel Byers, and two brothers, Chris and Joe. While battling tumors, pain, weakness and depression, Boey reached out to others, taking stuffed toys to other patients at Doernbecher and lobbying Congress to pass a “Conquer Childhood Cancer Act,” which would increase funding for the treatment, prevention and cure of childhood cancer.