Popular Fox News commentator Dr. Kelly Powers has died after a battle with aggressive brain cancer. She was 45.
Powers, a successful podiatric surgeon, was first diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020. She went into remission before the terminal illness returned this year.
Dr. Powers was a regular on the Fox News talk show “Red Eye,” and she made appearances on Fox Business. She went into heart failure while live on the air in 2018.
After experiencing pain in her back and chest and shortness of breath, she’d gone to three emergency rooms and was told that she was “fine”.
But she wasn’t fine. Powers went into heart failure during a live report on FOX Business.
“Here I was – a doctor talking to the public and giving expert advice… Meanwhile, I was missing the subtle signs in myself of heart failure,” Powers told Preferred Health magazine after her diagnosis.
She added: “I definitely feel like I cheated death!”
In 2020, after suffering from frequent headaches, Powers had a grand mal seizure that sent her to the emergency room. There doctors diagnosed her with the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma. It is the same form of brain cancer that took the life of Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore in 2021. Moore was 54.
Powers called herself “the luckiest unlucky girl” during her interview with Preferred Health magazine.
After three surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, she went into remission. She later became pregnant and gave birth to a boy, Bennett, according to a GoFundMe.
When her cancer returned in 2024, friends raised nearly $100,000 to help pay for an experimental treatment that insurance wouldn’t cover.
Powers is survived by Bennett, 3, and her husband, Steve.
