LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Tennis nice Chris Evert has accomplished her sixth and last chemotherapy session to deal with stage 1 ovarian cancer, the previous world primary stated on Monday.
The 18-time Grand Slam champion revealed she had been identified with the illness in January.
“I’m a bit of out of it (meds) however nonetheless, grateful and relieved I completed my six chemo remedies,” she wrote on Twitter alongside a video of her with the well being care employees who handled her and ringing a wind chime to mark the event.
“Love you, thanks a lot … We hope we do not see you once more,” Evert instructed the employees with amusing as she ready to exit the well being care facility.
Evert’s youthful sister, former professional tennis participant Jeanne Evert Dubin, died after a battle with ovarian cancer in 2020 on the age of 62. Dubin’s cancer had unfold earlier than it was detected.
Evert, 67, has stated her physician instructed her that after the remedies had been full, there was a greater than a 90% probability the cancer would by no means return as a result of it was caught so early.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Stephen Coates)
