A Neighbours star has been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer
Neighbours star Kate Keltie - who played Michelle Skully and was part of the Skully family on the soap - has been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer.
Neighbours star Kate Keltie – who played Michelle Skully and was part of the Skully family on the soap – has been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer.
Keltie joined Neighbours when she was just 13 and was part of the show from 1999-2004 and was siblings with Holly Candy (nee Valance) and Carla Bonner on the show.
The former actress’s friends have started a GoFundMe page to help her cover the costs associated with the treatment.
“Our beautiful Kate is going through the unimaginable,’’ the fundraising page reads.
“She was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer. Her cancer is extremely aggressive and it has spread to other parts of her body, including her lymph nodes, blood and hip bones (known as metastatic cancer). This week the fight of her life begins as she starts chemotherapy.
It continues, “Given the severity of the chemotherapy that Kate requires, her Oncologist advised that working and maintaining her job during this time, is not an option. She will lose her gorgeous hair and cannot carry children in the future. This is devastating news for anyone, let alone at the age of 36, with no family history of breast cancer.”
Last week, Keltie left a thank you message on the page for those who had donated and supported her.
“I just wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your support, and messages and phone calls. It’s so amazing to know I have so many incredible people in my corner. I’ve just got over COVID and I start my first round of chemotherapy tomorrow, and you really have no idea how my head space has changed going into it because of each and every one of you,” she wrote.
