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PINEVILLE, N.C. – With the calm and confidence a woman twice her age, 15-year-old Briana Watts took to the airwaves as co-host of the Kendall Konnections show on WGIV.

She interviewed guests and took calls from listeners, but Briana's main purpose was to share her personal story. Two years ago, right around Christmas time, Briana went to see a doctor because her leg had been bothering her for some time.

The diagnosis was something that would change her life forever.

“At first when he said it, it kind of didn't hit me,” Watts said. “You always hear cancer but you never expect it to be you.”

Her doctors quickly confirmed she had osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer that originated in the femur bone in her left leg. She was admitted to the hospital an hour later and that same night she received her first round of chemotherapy.

“It was a very difficult day and every day after that has been very difficult," said Briana's mother, Shonna Logan.

Briana has undergone seven surgeries and more than a year of chemotherapy.

In December of 2008, doctors declared her cancer was in remission, but six months later, scans found the cancer had returned and also spread to her lungs.

“It's just a totally different ball game when cancer is involved. It just takes total control," added Logan.

Two years later, Briana's doctors say there isn't much more they can do for her, aside from managing her pain.

“I guess I can tolerate it because I've been in a lot of pain for a long time,” she said. “But if you were feeling the pain I was feeling now, you'd probably be in tears,"

That courage and bravery keep her living each day – and she has promised to live them to the fullest.

“I guess when you have cancer you learn, especially when you're a child, you have no choice but to grow up fast, so that was the big thing,” added Watts.