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American women's grand slam icon Chris Evert revealed that she is cancer free after being diagnosed with Stage 1 BRCA-related ovarian cancer.
In a heartfelt article published on ESPN, Evert revealed that she was diagnosed with the same BRCA-1 variant of the disease which took the life of her sister Jeanne in February of 2020.
But Evert says that because of the 'genetic road map my sister left behind,' doctors were able to catch the disease early and treat it to the point where she says she's now 'cancer-free, and there's a 90 percent chance that the ovarian cancer will never come back.'
American grand slam tennis legend Chris Evert announced that she is now cancer free
Evert was diagnosed with a BRCA-1 variant of ovarian cancer back in November of 2021
Evert said that back when her sister was first diagnosed, doctors didn't recommend her or her siblings get tested.
'Jeanne wasn't BRCA positive, but genetic testing revealed she had a BRCA-1 variant that was of "uncertain significance.",' Evert's article read.
'Then, last November, I got a call saying they had reclassified her BRCA variant -- the significance was no longer uncertain, it was now very clearly pathogenic, and we should be tested.'
Evert said she took a simple blood test - confirming she had the same variant of the cancer that Jeanne had.
Evert says her sister, Jeanne, died from the same variant of the cancer that was found too late
With the diagnosis in place, Evert scheduled a preventative hysterectomy. When the pathology report came back, doctors found malignant cells and a tumor in her left fallopian tube.
But the discovery allowed doctors to treat the disease, 'early enough to do something about it.'
