Serena Williams says she had a benign branchial cyst “the scale of a small grapefruit” faraway from her neck and “all is OK.”
The retired tennis star, who turned 43 last month, posted Wednesday on social media that she discovered a lump on her neck in Could, had an MRI examination, and was informed she did not have to get it eliminated if she did not need to. So she did not then, “nevertheless it saved rising,” Williams mentioned.
Serena Williams undergoes surgical procedure to take away a cyst in her neck
After extra assessments, together with a biopsy that was detrimental for most cancers, Williams mentioned, her medical doctors mentioned she ought to have a process.
She confirmed video of herself in a hospital mattress and wrote: “So that is me eradicating it. I’m feeling so grateful, and lucky the whole lot labored out, and most of all I am wholesome.”
In a separate social media submit, she mentioned she is “nonetheless recovering, however getting higher. Well being at all times comes first.”
Williams introduced her retirement – famously eschewing that time period and saying as a substitute she was “evolving” away from skilled tennis – shortly earlier than enjoying within the 2022 U.S. Open, her final event.
She gained 23 Grand Slam titles in singles, essentially the most by a girl within the sport’s skilled period, and one other 14 in doubles along 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.
