Kaiser Permanente's Rose Parade float will again feature 10 young patients who have been praised for their resilience -- including an Inglewood teenager diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.
Karly Jeter, 14, will join others from across Southern California on this year's float, titled "Purrfectly Healthy."
Jeter was diagnosed with the illness, a cancer of the lymphatic system, in December 2009. After numerous rounds of chemotherapy, bouts of sickness, hair loss and other side effects, Jeter has been in remission since last February.
The teenager is back in school, is volunteering and made the honor's list for good grades. She wants to be a surgeon somebody, in honor of the doctor who treated her.
Jeter said she wants most of all to help people, partly due to her mother's recent diagnosis with breast cancer.
The Kaiser float will be decorated with more than 20,000 roses for this year's parade in Pasadena on Jan. 1.
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