The Canadian Tennis Champ Who Played Through Cancer Treatment

Gabriela Dabrowski, a three-time Grand Slam doubles champion, an Olympics mixed doubles medalist and the WTA Tour Finals women’s doubles champion has revealed that she played through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment throughout the 2024 tennis season.

“How can something so small cause such a big problem? This is the question I asked myself when I was diagnosed with breast cancer back in mid-April,” Dabrowski, 32, wrote on Instagram.

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Dabrowski found a lump in her left breast in spring 2023, but a doctor told her not to be concerned a few months later, she said. In spring 2024, a WTA doctor advised her to undergo a mammogram, before a biopsy

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