Cassandra Callender, Forced to Undergo Chemo, Dies at 22

Cassandra Callender, arrives home with her mother, for the first time since December after a court-ordered chemotherapy for cancer treatment, in Windsor Locks, Conn., on April 27, 2015. Stephen Dunn/Hartford Courant via AP

HARTFORD, Conn.—Cassandra Callender, who was forced by Connecticut courts as a teenager to undergo chemotherapy for cancer, has died after a five-year battle with the disease, her mother said on May 14. She was 22.

Callender, of Windsor Locks, died Tuesday at home, where she had been in hospice care for four months, Jackie Fortin said.