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The Black Widow of Pool Stares Down a New Challenge: Cancer

If you can name just one billiards player, it’s probably Jeanette Lee, who is known as the Black Widow. She recently learned she has Stage 4 ovarian cancer.

Jeanette Lee during an XTM International Team Carom Challenge match in Goyang, South Korea, in 2007.
Credit…Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto, via Getty Images

Jeanette Lee, better known as the Black Widow, spent years dominating pool tables despite degenerative, debilitating pain and became a top-ranked women’s billiards champion.

She learned she had scoliosis as a teenager and has undergone numerous procedures for the condition.

Every vertebra from her skull to her tailbone is fused.

“I don’t know why I felt like there was a race, but I always felt like there was and every minute I was playing pool, I was gaining on the people above me, and every time I was sidelined, I was just losing that edge,” Lee said.

In that chase, Lee, 49, became accustomed to brushing aside discomfort, which was as much a part of her life as her nose.

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