Legendary female professional billiard player Jeanette “Black Widow” Lee is now undergoing treatment following her Stage 4 ovarian cancer diagnosis.
The 49-year-old professional billiard player said she intends to fight the disease with the same resolve she showed in her sport, according to American Poolplayers Association.“At this stage, her doctors say she has a few months to a year left to live,” the campaign reads. “In typical Black Widow fashion, she has vowed to fight the progress of her disease as fiercely as possible with both chemotherapy, which has already begun, and a succession of upcoming surgeries.
Lee stopped playing billiards in 2010 because of the scoliosis she had since childhood, and her previous condition may have had a role in masking the spread of cancer through her body, The Washington Post reported. She has undergone 19 surgeries in the past for scoliosis. The prognosis is dire, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up by Tom George, Lee’s longtime agent, adding that her cancer has already metastasized into her lymph nodes.
Lee began playing billiards in 1989 and became a professional in the sport in 1991. Three years later, she was named the Women’s Professional Billiard Association’s player of the year.