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A cancer patient quarantined on a cruise ship fears she won't make it home for her chemotherapy
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/us/grand-princess-cancer-patient-stuck-trnd/index.html
Kari Kolstoe with the medications she takes for her cancer.
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
Updated 4:59 PM ET, Sat March 7, 2020
(CNN)A woman quarantined aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship off the California coast has stage 4 cancer and is worried she won't make it home to start chemotherapy treatment on Monday.
Kari Kolstoe, 60, told CNN she was diagnosed 18 months ago with neuroendocrine cancer, which starts in the digestive tract and it makes carcinoid tumors all over your body.
Since her diagnosis, she's undergone four rounds of chemotherapy and had her ovaries removed in January, but that did not stop the spread of cancer. It has now made its way to her lower back.
She is on the ship with her husband, Paul. The couple live in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
'I'm in extremely delicate health right now'
Kari said since her diagnosis, her doctors have given her medication to manage her pain, but she hasn't been given anything to attack the cancer itself and that's why getting off the Grand Princess is so important.
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Kari Kolstoe with the medications she takes for her cancer.
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
Updated 4:59 PM ET, Sat March 7, 2020
(CNN)A woman quarantined aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship off the California coast has stage 4 cancer and is worried she won't make it home to start chemotherapy treatment on Monday.
Kari Kolstoe, 60, told CNN she was diagnosed 18 months ago with neuroendocrine cancer, which starts in the digestive tract and it makes carcinoid tumors all over your body.
Since her diagnosis, she's undergone four rounds of chemotherapy and had her ovaries removed in January, but that did not stop the spread of cancer. It has now made its way to her lower back.
She is on the ship with her husband, Paul. The couple live in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
'I'm in extremely delicate health right now'
Kari said since her diagnosis, her doctors have given her medication to manage her pain, but she hasn't been given anything to attack the cancer itself and that's why getting off the Grand Princess is so important.
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