Olivia Williams will never receive the news that she's cancer-free. The reason? Her tumor was misdiagnosed multiple times."If someone had f------ well diagnosed me in the four years I’d been saying I was ill, when they told me I was menopausal or had irritable bowel syndrome or [was] crazy — I used that word advisedly because one doctor referred me for a psychiatric assessment — then one operation possibly could have cleared the whole thing and I could describe myself as cancer-free, which I cannot now ever be,” Williams told The Times of London in an interview published on April 19.
Williams, 56, explained that she received a variety of possible diagnoses — from lupus to menopause — before doctors found a vasoactive intestinal peptide secreting (VIPoma) tumor in her pancreas. The pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor is considered rare, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
A patient with a VIPoma tumor can suffer from a variety of symptoms, such as fatigue, stomach cramps, and severe diarrhea.
Williams' cancer metastasized to her liver. Following the discovery of the tumor, Williams underwent targeted internal radiotherapy. She has since had four rounds of the treatment. "It’s supposed to buy me maybe a year, maybe two or three years, of freedom from treatment,. In the best-case scenario it would have made [the metastases] disappear but that didn’t happen," Williams, who portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles on Netflix’s The Crown, told The Times of London.
"They’ve found new metastases pretty well either just before Christmas or in the middle of a summer holiday. Then, for three years in a row, they started appearing too close to major blood vessels to zap. So there was a period when we were just sitting and watching them grow, which is a horrible feeling," she added.
Williams, who has two adult daughters with husband Rhashan Stone, has gotten her affairs in order just in case.
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