Williams-Mills competed with breast cancer last season, by Alfons Juck, EME News BIRMINGHAM (GBR): Dailymail.co.uk writes that on June 25 2012, Novlene Williams-Mills was diagnosed with breast cancer. She told no-one apart from her husband of five years, Jameel, family and friends and then won the 400 metres at the Jamaican Senior National Championships that weekend in 50.60 seconds, booking her place in the Olympic team. Williams-Mills finished fifth in the 400m at London 2012 and won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400m relay. Three days after the Games surgeons removed a small lump in her breast. She then had a double mastectomy, a further operation to cut out the remaining cancerous cells and reconstructive surgery. Her final operation was on January 18. Last week Williams-Mills lay on the track as the Jamaican 400m champion after qualifying for the World Championships in Moscow this August by running 50.01
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