Kylie's Kids: Deanna The Cancer Destroyer

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Every week, Kylie Bearse meets a child battling a serious illness, but this week she's bringing a special "mom" edition of Kylie's Kids.

WCCO first introduced you to Sydney the Cancer Slayer last year when she was fighting a blood cancer. But when her mom found out she had breast cancer, she became Deanna the Cancer Destroyer.

This walk along the Mississippi holds a special place for Deanna. It's where she would come with her daughter Sydney.

"This was her happy spot, and we really enjoyed this place together," she said. "St. Anthony Main was the place that we would come and just enjoy."

This year, St. Anthony Main is now Deanna's break from the hospital. Just after their Make a Wish trip to Paris in March, Deanna learned that she now had cancer, with the same doctor delivering the news.

"And she goes, 'I'm looking at the paperwork and it's the same date as Sydney was diagnosed,'" Deanna said.

March 28, 2015 was when Sydney was diagnosed. March 28, 2016 brought Deanna's breast cancer diagnosis.

"Sydney immediately when she found out she had cancer, she said I'm going to be the Cancer Slayer," Deanna said. "The moment I found out, she said: 'Well, you're going to have to come up with a name now.' So it was Deanna the Cancer Destroyer."

Just like Sydney slayed her cancer, Deanna plans to destroy hers.

"I just remember saying to myself when Sydney was diagnosed and she was lying in that bed ... I would take her place, in a million years I would take her place," she said. "Now, in my mind's eye, Sydney will never ever have cancer again because I'm taking the place."