FOX News commentator and physician Kelly Powers has passed away after a long battle with cancer. She was 45 years old.
Powers was first diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020 after facing a series of health issues and went into remission before the deadly disease returned this year.
She was a regular on the Fox News talk show Red Eye and appeared on Fox Business, where she led a segment on the health risks facing Americans.
However, her career in journalism supplemented her true passion for medicine.
A successful podiatric surgeon, Powers was educated at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and completed residencies at Georgetown and Boston University School of Medicine.
“She was a brave and beautiful soul who made friends wherever she went. Kelly loved people and was dedicated to helping others,” her obituary read. Ta.
After years of helping patients, Powers was hosting a segment on heart health on Fox News when she started experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain, which prompted her to help patients herself.
“It’s crazy. I went into heart failure while reporting live on Fox Business about heart health and talking about the subtle signs that women often miss. You can’t make this up,” she said at first. told Preferred Health Magazine in an interview following his diagnosis.
She battled the disease, but a short time later it was discovered that she had an aggressive brain tumor, glioblastoma.
After three surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments, she managed to beat the cancer, while becoming pregnant and giving birth to a boy, Bennett, according to her GoFundMe.
After overcoming her illness, she called herself “the luckiest, unluckiest girl” and joked that her treatment gave her the same hairstyle as Bennett as a baby, the funding page states. has been done.
When her cancer returned in 2024, friends raised nearly $100,000 to help pay for experimental treatments not covered by insurance.
Powers leaves behind 3-year-old Bennett and her husband Steve.
