CRYSTAL LAKE – Without her faith, Sandi Kavanagh might listen to doctors who say her time is short. With it, she listens to a different voice.

“I have every intention to beat this cancer,” said Kavanagh, 48, of Crystal Lake. “I don’t care what the odds are. I don’t care what people say. I know the power of my God.”

Kavanagh was diagnosed in January with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive form of brain cancer. When traditional radiation and chemotherapy treatments made no progress against the cancer, Kavanagh and her family started researching alternative ways to attack it.