The Truth Of It Video Series: Kelly

Kelly was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 11 and then with breast cancer at the age of 28. She describes what it was like being a kid with cancer and how that changed when she was an adult with cancer. She shares that she was forced to re-evaluate feminine societal norms because of her mastectomies and losing her hair to chemo, how she found her own strength, and how her experience affected the way she sees the future.
This is part of a series of unscripted videos called the ‘The Truth of It.’ Learn about patients’ and caregivers’ unique experiences as well as their common threads of emotions, coping and perspective: www.partnershi...
Note the interviewees express their own opinions, and not necessarily those of the Partnership.