In a des­per­ate bid for sur­vival, new­ly­wed pri­ma­ry school teacher Kri­an­na Var­sha Roop­nar­ine is fight­ing can­cer while strug­gling to hold on to the ca­reer she loves.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia last Mon­day, Roop­nar­ine said in 2022, she was di­ag­nosed with stage 2B Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s Lym­phoma, which are blood can­cers in the lym­phat­ic sys­tem.

For three years, Roop­nar­ine said she en­dured some of the most ag­gres­sive treat­ments mod­ern med­i­cine can of­fer — two cy­cles of R-CHOP chemother­a­py (Rit­ux­imab, Cy­clophos­phamide, Hy­drox­y­daunoru­bicin/Dox­oru­bicin, On­covin/Vin­cristine, and Pred­nisone), two cy­cles of AB­VD chemother­a­py (Adri­amycin/Dox­oru­bicin, Bleomycin, Vin­blas­tine, and Dacar­bazine), fol­lowed by two cy­cles of Es­ca­lat­ed BEA­COPP chemother­a­py (Bleomycin, Etopo­side, Adri­amycin/Dox­oru­bicin, Cy­clophos­phamide, On­covin/Vin­cristine, Pro­car­bazine, and Pred­nisone), and fi­nal­ly 20 ses­sions of tar­get­ed ra­di­a­tion ther­a­py.