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elly Northey’s smile was infectious, and her In January of 1982, after a six-month struggle, Kelly
boundless energy touched every person succumbed to the disease, but her legacy was to live
Kshe met in her short lifetime. Kelly was 8 on with the creation of Brain Tumour Foundation of
years old when she was diagnosed with a brain Canada, says Shannon LaHay, CEO of Brain Tumour
tumour—the year was 1981, when there was little Foundation of Canada. Kelly’s father, Steve Northey,
organized support or specific research into brain Dr. Rolando Del Maestro—a neurosurgeon who was
tumours being conducted, which often left patients working on a brain research laboratory at the time—
diagnosed with a brain tumour to struggle alone and his wife, Pamela, a neuroscience nurse, met
with the physical and emotional effects of the around a kitchen table shortly after Kelly’s death to
disease. create a resource to aid families in a similar
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