AFL star Jeremy Finlayson’s wife Kellie’s cancer battle is ongoing and is still life-threatening

Kellie Finlayson, the wife of Adelaide AFL star Jeremy Finlayson, has reported that she is cancer free.

Because she is not – and the flood of well-wishers causes a lot of unrest and fear in her household.

Finlayson was diagnosed in 2021 with stage four colon cancer – mostly terminal – just three months after the birth of the couple’s first child, Sophia, and she’s been on constant megablocks of chemotherapy ever since.

There has been improvement due to the ultra-exhaustive treatment.

However, she wants to set the record straight.

During a TV interview a week ago, she openly and happily admitted that the stage four diagnosis had been reset after chemo. In other words, re-evaluated and its severity lessened, but it is far from cured.

Unfortunately, some media outlets chose to share a different story on the back cover of this interview, using the best bits of information and making it sound like I was miraculously cured and cancer free. This is absolutely not the case,” she said in a statement to the press on Friday.

“As you can imagine, seeing these stories, I was inundated with friends and family calling to celebrate ‘my miracle.’

“I have had to tell them all that my prognosis has not changed. I still have stage four colorectal cancer and I am not cancer free.

“This has been so incredibly traumatic for me, telling people over and over that I still have terminal cancer.”

The brave mom did say the cancer treatment is working, but there is still microscopic evidence of the deadly cancer cells and they need aggressive treatment.

During her prolonged and intense chemotherapy, waves of guilt washed over her.

In happier, healthier times Kellie and her star husband Jeremy Finlayson from Adelaide Crows in 2022

“I was constantly feeling guilty about not being able to help Sophia, I was having so many reactions to treatment, and I felt so sad that I couldn’t be with my family,” she said.

“They say my cancer may have been there for three or four years before I was diagnosed. Prior to my pregnancy I did have some intestinal issues and was booked in for a colonoscopy in April 2020 but unfortunately all of these surgeries have been canceled due to COVID.

“When I got pregnant with Sophia in November 2020, all my symptoms disappeared, so I never thought about it again.

“In July 2022, my scans showed that the treatment had worked and that I no longer had tumors, although seven lymph nodes still showed microscopic cancer cells.

“They could never say I was cancer-free and in remission because of these seven lymph nodes, but the surgeon was quite optimistic about my progress and I had hope for the future.”

No one can predict the future, but the government’s harsh response to the Covid pandemic, which forced many elective surgeries into the abyss, may have exacerbated her condition.

She was not allowed to have her colonoscopy in 2020, which if she could have, would have shown her desperate need for treatment.

As such, the cancer in her metastasized because no treatment had been applied, eventually reaching stage four lethal levels.

‘Last week [May 23], I did another round of chemotherapy that knocked me over as my body turned down the treatment. As a result, I was hospitalized overnight to recover,” said Finlayson.

“At this point, I’m not sure if we’re going to do more chemotherapy.

‘In the coming weeks, however, I will start targeted radiotherapy for the lesion in my lung. I am still waiting to hear from my oncologist about this.

The Finlayson’s earlier this year with Kellie’s life threatening cancer slowly being overcome

Kellie Finlayson (pictured) with her baby Sophia, has been forced to go back to treatment as seven microscopic cancerous glands have been discovered

“I know I will have radiotherapy every second day for at least three weeks before another scan in July. In this scan I will find out whether my treatment has worked or whether further treatment is necessary.’

So while the constant rounds of tough treatments have improved her condition, Finlayson knows and wants others to know, too, that she’s not out of the woods.

The panacea has not yet taken place.

“As I write this, I’m happy to say that my treatment is working well at this stage, and I’m lucky enough to feel pretty good about 80 percent of the time.

“I believe that if the cancer consumes my mind, it will be a lot harder to overcome the disease, so I try to have a positive outlook and mindset.

“I take each day as it comes and focus on being here and now and enjoying time with my daughter, my husband, and our family and friends.”