After 2 sons battle cancer, NC family fights to end childhood cancer

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A Fayetteville family has made it their mission to fight childhood cancer after two of their children were diagnosed with the disease.

Patrick and Collin Henry have a pretty typical brotherly relationship, a little rivalry, a little teasing and lots of laughter, but there was a time when smiles and laughs came few and far between.

When Collin was two, doctors diagnosed him with leukemia.

“You feel like you don’t have control. You feel like my one job as a parent is to protect my kid and I can’t do it,” recalled mom, Kathleen Henry.

Kathleen, whose husband was often away serving in the military, could only try to comfort her baby boy and her two older children as Collin endured years of chemotherapy treatments.

There was also constant worry.

“Once you have a child with cancer, everything is a cancer scare to your family,” said Kathleen.

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