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After beginning her own medical odyssey in October, Nicholle Anderson was going to do everything in her power to make sure she didn’t miss Monday’s visit to CHEO by the Ottawa Senators’ wives and girlfriends.

“I made it my point to find enough energy to come here today,” the wife of Senators goalie Craig Anderson said during the visit, “because to go to the oncology floor and just know exactly what they’re going through, their daily struggles, what their parents go through, between the caregivers, to the patients struggling every day, I felt it was necessary to come here to lift some spirit if I can.”

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Anderson has been battling a rare form of head and neck cancer known as nasopharyngeal cancer for about four months. The nasopharynx is located behind the nose, in the upper part of the throat.

As part of Anderson’s aggressive treatment plan at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, she was to receive radiation therapy (33 sessions) alongside chemotherapy. That was to be followed by three more rounds of chemotherapy over a 12-week period.