Martina Navratilova diagnosed with throat, breast cancer

Tennis nice Martina Navratilova revealed Monday that she has been diagnosed with each throat and breast cancer. Both cancers are stage one and the prognosis is sweet, she mentioned in a statement to the Women’s Tennis Association web site.

“This double whammy is serious but still fixable. I’m hoping for a favorable outcome,” Navratilova mentioned within the assertion. “It’s going to stink for a while, but I’ll fight with all (I’ve) got.”

Navratilova, 66, mentioned she underwent testing in November after discovering an enlarged lymph node in her neck throughout the WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. Her medical doctors discovered stage one throat cancer and, later, unrelated stage one breast cancer. 

She battled breast cancer as soon as earlier than in 2010, present process a profitable lumpectomy to take away the cancerous cells.

“I didn’t need to have chemo,” she told CNN on the time. “The surgery was minor. I was out of the hospital that day so nothing to really knock me on my butt and really suffer from, so I was fortunate that I got the kind of cancer that you can control this way.”

Navratilova, broadly thought of among the best tennis gamers of all time, has received 59 Grand Slam titles general, together with 31 in ladies’s doubles and 10 in combined doubles. The final was a combined doubles championship with Bob Bryan on the 2006 U.S. Open, a month shy of her fiftieth birthday.  

She initially retired in 1994, after a report 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 within the WTA rankings. She returned to the tour to play doubles in 2000 and infrequently competed in singles, too.

Navratilova was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. She has labored as a TV analyst in recent times.

According to the WTA, Navratilova’s therapies start subsequent week, largely in New York City. She doesn’t plan to be a daily a part of the Tennis Channel’s protection of the Australian Open this month, however hopes to sometimes take part by way of video name.