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Olivia Williams Advocates for Early Pancreatic Cancer Detection Amid Ongoing Treatment

The Crown actress, battling metastatic pancreatic VIPoma, calls for affordable early screening tests while undergoing Lutathera radiotherapy at King’s College Hospital.

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Olivia Williams played Camilla in The Crown.
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Overview

  • Olivia Williams has revealed she will never be cancer-free due to years of misdiagnoses that delayed her pancreatic cancer diagnosis until 2018.
  • Her rare VIPoma tumor metastasized, leading to multiple surgeries and ongoing treatments, including targeted internal radiotherapy with Lutathera.
  • The treatment leaves Williams temporarily radioactive, requiring isolation, and has not prevented the continued appearance of new metastases.
  • She is now an ambassador for Pancreatic Cancer UK, using her platform to push for a low-cost, early detection test to improve survival rates for others.
  • Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers, with 25% of patients dying within a month of diagnosis and survival rates stagnant for decades.