Heather Farr’s Sister Struck By Cancer, Too

A sister of Heather Farr has breast cancer, the same disease that killed the golfer in 1993.

“I’ve known about it for five days, and I’m in shock,” Missy Farr-Kaye said Monday. “The minute I found out (last Wednesday), I thought of Heather and what she went through.

“It’s very surreal, like a really bad movie. I feel like I’m talking about someone else, like it was Heather’s disease. That it’s gotten me, too, is devastating.”

Farr-Kaye, 30, who has two sons, Dalton, 4, and Riley, 7 months, will undergo a double mastectomy with reconstructive surgery on Thursday at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix.

Her surgeon, Dr. Raymond Shamos, said he is “hopeful of a total cure.”

Heather Farr, an All-American at Arizona State, died at 28 after battling cancer for four years.