Francine Leitch was 20 years old and had just entered her second year of study at the University of Guyana when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Now, seven years after that experience and five since she was declared cancer free, Leitch uses her voice to increase the awareness of all forms of cancer and to speak about the importance of a healthy lifestyle in general.
This also involves mental health as over the years she has realised how crucial that is, having seen the adverse effects of not being in a healthy mental state.
Growing up, Leitch said, while she would not describe herself as sickly she always knew something was wrong as she often battled for energy especially in her secondary days at Queen’s College.
