Serena Williams says she had a malignant tumor faraway from her neck and ‘all the things is ok’
NEW YORK – Serena Williams says she had a branchial cyst “the dimensions of a small grapefruit” faraway from her neck and “all the things is ok.”
The retired tennis star, who turned 43 years outdated final month, wrote on Wednesday on social media that he discovered a lump in his neck in Might, underwent an MRI, and was instructed that there isn’t any must take away it if he would not wish to. to. So he did not on the time, “but it surely continued to develop,” Williams stated.
After extra checks, together with a biopsy that got here again unfavourable for most cancers, Williams stated, her medical doctors stated she ought to have the process.
He confirmed a video of himself in a hospital mattress and wrote: “So I am the one who’s taking it away. I really feel very grateful, and I am fortunate that all the things labored out, and most of all I am wholesome.”
In one other submit on social media, he stated he’s “nonetheless recovering, however getting higher. Life at all times comes first.”
Williams introduced her retirement – disappointingly eschewing that time period and saying as an alternative that she was “popping out” {of professional} tennis – shortly earlier than taking part in the 2022 US Open, her remaining match.
She received 23 Grand Slam titles in singles, essentially the most by a lady within the skilled period, and 14 extra in doubles together with her older sister Venus. Serena Williams spent greater than 300 weeks at No. 1 within the WTA rankings and picked up 4 Olympic gold medals.
