Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson and his ailing wife, Nicholle, plan to launch a charitable cancer foundation this year as she continues to battle a rare form of head and neck cancer.
Nicholle Anderson conveyed the news in a New Year’s Day post on her blog, StickbyNik, which describes her diagnosis with nasopharyngeal cancer and her unfolding treatment at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
As part of Anderson’s aggressive treatment plan, she’s receiving radiation therapy (33 sessions) alongside chemotherapy. It is to be followed by three more rounds of chemotherapy over a 12-week period.
“As Craig and I have learned so much about cancer in 2016, we decided to create a cancer foundation,” Anderson writes in a post on Jan.