“It really feels like we won gold because of just everything that we had been through just to even be there,” said Gilles, who revealed her cancer diagnosis publicly on Sunday, the day before World Ovarian Cancer Day. They returned to earn their second world championships bronze medal in three years. Gilles and Poirier missed the Canadian Championships in January and the Four Continents Championships in February, citing the appendectomy at the time. “Even that word, cancer, it’s frightening.” “Even now I’m still digesting everything,” she said, noting that her mom died of brain cancer in 2018. Gilles said that her previously announced December appendectomy was precautionary “because we weren’t sure what type of tumor was inside of me on my left ovary.” I’m good right now, but I just don’t want women to wait too long and find out it’s stage 4. “This isn’t a poor-me story,” Gilles said, according to the Globe and Mail. Canadian ice dancer Piper Gilles was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer in December or January before winning a world championships bronze medal with partner Paul Poirier in March.
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