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Chris Evert shares happy news with his followers.
The tennis legend was revealed in an op-ed published on January 17 ESPN.com that she is cancer free after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer last November.
Evert began by sharing how the death of his sister Jeannes in 2020 from ovarian cancer helped him detect cancer early by giving him a genetic road map.
Jeanne was not BRCA-positive, but genetic testing revealed she had a BRCA-1 variant of uncertain significance, she wrote, adding that while they initially did not recommend genetic testing for her and her siblings, things changed in November. I got a call saying that her BRCA variant had been reclassified, the meaning was no longer uncertain, it was now very clearly pathogenic and we should be tested. I was shocked, I didn’t even know it was possible.
After testing, he discovered that he had the same BRCA-1 variant as his sister, and his pathology report found malignant cells and a tumor in my left fallopian tube.
“Only because of the genetic road map left by my sister and scientific advances did we catch my cancer early enough to do something about it,” she wrote, adding that if she had waited any longer, she likely would have been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. Instead, I was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer and immediately began six rounds of chemotherapy.
Today I am cancer free and there is a 90 percent chance that ovarian cancer will never return, Evert wrote.
However, Everts’ journey was not over. He warned people about BRCA mutations and the risks of breast cancer, prostate and pancreatic cancer. Evert then shared how on December 1st, one year to the day after her hysterectomy, she had a double mastectomy.
I held my breath as I waited for my pathology results. Fortunately, the report came back clean and clear, and my risk of developing breast cancer has decreased by more than 90%, she wrote. Evert also shared that he has one more surgery left to complete the reconstruction.
He concluded by encouraging people to learn about genetic testing.
As relieved as I am to get to the other side of this, I always have a heavy heart. I will never recover from losing Jeanne, and I will never take for granted the gift she gave me in the process, he wrote. My sister’s journey saved my life, and I hope that by sharing mine, I might just save someone else’s.
TheCenters for Disease Control and Prevention previously reported that while most cases of breast and ovarian cancer are not hereditary, certain BRCA mutations can significantly increase your risk of developing these cancers. According to the CDC, about 50 out of 100 women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation will develop breast cancer by age 70, compared to only 7 out of 100 women in the US population.
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