At 30, this doctor beat cancer. Yet she says: “Healing or no healing, God remains good”

In her haematologist’s office on December 18, 2025, Joycelyn Chong heard the words she had been praying for: She was cancer-free.

“My end-of-year blood tests and MRI scan all came back negative and clear. Though I was confident God had healed me, I was so relieved,” said Joycelyn, 30.

In July 2023, the young medical doctor’s life was upended when she was diagnosed with an aggressive blood cancer, Precursor B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (Pre-B-cell ALL).

Since then, she has undergone almost 20 lumbar punctures, 16 bone marrow biopsies, 12 radiotherapy sessions, four PICC lines, three cycles of immunotherapy, one stem cell transplant, and countless hospital visits and admissions. (Salt&Light first published Joycelyn’s story here.)

Joycelyn and Weetyr celebrating Chinese New Year 2026 at home in Malaysia.

Her husband, Weetyr, had walked with her every step of the way. Joycelyn is also deeply grateful to her medical team and cancer day-care nurses who consistently looked out for her.

Her daily sustenance, however, was the presence of God, she said. “The past season truly felt like God had brought us through the fire and stood with us the whole way through, reaffirming His promises in our lives day after day.”

A life fully surrendered

As Joycelyn slowly picks up the pieces of life and resumes “normality”, she feels a mix of excitement and trepidation.

After halting work to undergo treatment, she will return to the medical profession in May, trusting the Lord for a renewed mind and healthy body as she begins with a part-time role.

“The very things I’m now able to return to are what I felt most anxious about, especially work. So much has changed in two and a half years, and in some ways I feel left behind when compared to my peers,” she admitted.

Joycelyn ringing the “I’m cancer-free bell” after her final treatment infusion

Her family and friends are praying that God would restore the years that were lost and multiply the years ahead. “Weetyr and I also continue to pray for and believe in this,” she said.

Another hope and prayer they have is to have children one day.

“We have been told that the odds for natural conception is two per cent, but we believe God is greater than any of the statistics currently known,” she said quietly. “For now, we wait behind closed doors with prayer in faith, gratitude in our hearts and praise on our lips.”

Experiencing His grace

Joycelyn’s deep, steady faith is evident as she reflects on her journey thus far. As she speaks of the Lord, her words carry a firm conviction in His presence in their lives.

Over the past two and a half years, she has grown closer to her Creator, witnessing His overflowing grace and goodness in her life.

When Joycelyn was first diagnosed with cancer, questions of death and healing flooded her thoughts. “If God doesn’t heal me the way I am praying for,” she thought, “Will I still proclaim that He works all things for good, that He is loving and faithful?”

“One of the reasons why I am confident He is overflowing with grace is because God owes me nothing and yet, He chose to save me anyway … not because of my merit, but because of His mercy,” she said.

“Grace, as I have come to realise, is the quiet strength that sustained us when we were too weary to stand. His grace has met us in the hospital rooms and in hushed prayers in the night.

“It has steadied our hearts when fear came knocking, and it became our anchor when the future seemed uncertain – not as something loud or dramatic, but constant and unwavering.

“This is the grace Jesus talked about in the Bible, not transactional or conditional, but freely given to us because the Father loves us so. And it was this same grace that carried us through.”

Joycelyn (second row, third from left) with her family during Chinese New Year 2026.

The couple has also learnt true surrender – submitting to God’s timeline, not theirs. They have learnt that a delay in an answered prayer is not His denial, for He keeps His promises.

She and Weetyr now find themselves hungrier than ever for the Word of God, which has sparked deeper conversations and reflections about faith, suffering and hope.

Joycelyn has joined a Bible Study with a group of girls from church, where she can contribute, receive spiritual nourishment and do life together.

Joycelyn (seated, right) with her Bible study group in December 2025.

“Communion has also taken on a much deeper meaning for my husband and me, bringing moments of intimacy in encountering God and just being in His presence,” she said.

Anchored in His unchanging nature

Joycelyn continues to pray that the Lord will keep her cancer-free for the rest of her life. To be declared fully in remission, she needs clear results for the next two years.

Asked how she would have felt if healing had not come, she said: “I think I would’ve definitely grieved, but it wouldn’t waver my faith in God because His ways are always higher and greater than my own.

“It’ll be hard to sing a hallelujah, but I will do it anyway through the tears, trusting that whatever the outcome is, my future is in His hands.”

Beginning to live again, Joycelyn and Weetyr enjoy a strawberry picking date.

But why would she still believe in God if He had not given her this miracle of healing?

For Joycelyn, it is a choice anchored in who Jesus has proven Himself to be over the last 30 years of her life.

“My faith should not be dependent on whether I am healed or on how I feel, but rather on who He is and His unchanging nature,” she said.

Healing or no healing, God remains good – for Joycelyn, Weetyr, and all standing with them in prayer as the couple faces the unknowns of tomorrow.

She said: “If I have to live with a ‘thorn in my flesh’ for the rest of my life, or meet my Creator earlier than expected, He is still a good, good Father. That will never change.”

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