Canadian tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski has revealed she played through 2024 while battling breast cancer. Dabrowski, who won the 2023 US Open doubles title, delayed part of her treatment so she could compete at Wimbledon where she made the final with Kiwi partner Erin Routliffe. The 32-year-old, who is ranked No.
3 in the doubles, posted a lengthy update on social media detailing her brave fight. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today It all began in 2023 when she felt a lump on her breast, but it wasn’t until April 2024 when she received the news that nobody wants to hear. After being diagnoses, Dabrowski took two months off to recover from surgery, but was back on the courts in June to compete at Wimbledon.
“I know this will come as a shock to many, but I am OK and I will be okay. Early detection saves lives. I can wholeheartedly agree with this,” she said.
“In the spring of 2023 I felt a lump in my left breast during a self-exam. A few months later, a doctor told me it was nothing and not to worry. So I didn’t.
Time went on, and in spring 2024, I thought the lump was a little bigger. During our WTA comprehensive physicals, a WTA doctor told me she wasn’t sure what it was, and to go and get it scanned. “First, a mammogram, second, an ultrasound, to confirm what the mammogram saw.
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a phone call from the radiologist reading the images, alerting me to a lump that did not look like a cyst due to its uneven edging and shading. ‘It looks ugly and.
