“The Crown” star was treated incorrectly before diagnosis

Olivia Williams suffered excessive fatigue, body aches and chronic diarrhea for years. In an interview, the actress now spoke about her arduous path to a correct diagnosis and why she can never call herself as cancer -free. In 2018 – after four years of complaints – she received the diagnosis.

Multiple has received incorrect diagnoses several times, as reported in an interview with the. In search of answers, she visited “about 21 doctors” in three different countries. A doctor in Los Angeles finally found a rare tumor on her pancreas.

“If only someone in the four years in which I said I was sick, well diagnosed,” the 56-year-old told The Times. “I was told that I was in the menopause, I have an irritable bowel or be crazy” – a doctor referred her to a psychiatric examination. An early operation could have “eliminated the whole thing, and I could describe myself as cancer -free that I can never be,” she told the magazine.

When the doctors removed the tumor, he had already spread to the liver. Now it is dependent on the constant treatment of metastases. To do this, it is undergoing a so -called microwaveblation. The mother of two daughters continues to work as an actress between the treatments. After her role in “The Crown” she was last seen in the HBO series “Dune: Prophecy”.

In the interview, Williams emphasizes that she does not want to excite her disease history. Instead, it is committed to developing a favorable test for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. So that others don’t have to go through the same thing.