Tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski reveals she played in Wimbledon, Olympics while battling breast cancer

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Canadian tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2024 in a post to social media.

Dabrowski, 32, said that she slightly delayed some of her treatment to be able to complete at Wimbledon and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. 

"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," Dabrowski wrote on Instagram.

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Gabriela Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime celebrate after winning the bronze medal in mixed doubles during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade Roland Garros. (Amber Searls-USA TODAY Sports)

"During our WTA comprehensive physicals, a WTA doctor told me she wasn’t sure what it was, and to go and get it scanned… 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 I want you get a biopsy immediately.’"

"The following morning I went into Advent Health Hospital in Wesley Chapel and had a biopsy of my left breast. The preliminary results came back that day: cancer. These are words you never expect to hear, and in an instant your life or the life of a loved one turns upside down."

Dabrowski said she is choosing to share her story now because for a long time, she "wasn’t ready to expose myself to the possible attention and questions I’d have gotten before."

The star tennis player wanted to "figure everything out and handle things privately."

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