Tennis legend Martina Navratilova diagnosed with

Martina Navratilova, who’s extensively thought to be one of many best tennis gamers of all time, has been recognized with two types of most cancers, she revealed to Tennis.com in an article printed Monday. The 66-year-old stated docs recognized her with Stage 1 throat most cancers in addition to an unrelated type of breast most cancers. 

“This double whammy is critical however nonetheless fixable, and I am hoping for a positive end result,” she instructed the outlet. “It may stink for some time, however I will struggle with all [I’ve] acquired.” 

Navratilova stated she first observed an indication of most cancers in the course of the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation finals in Fort Value, Texas, final November. It was there she observed a lymph node in her neck was enlarged, and when it did not scale back by itself, she acquired a biopsy. 

She was recognized with Stage 1 throat most cancers stemming from human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV is a typical sexually transmitted an infection that’s thought to trigger about 70% of oropharyngeal cancers within the U.S., in accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. 

Navratilova instructed Tennis.com that docs issued a robust prognosis and that she’s going to start remedy this month. 

This is not Navratilova’s first battle with most cancers. She was previously diagnosed with a non-invasive type of breast most cancers referred to as ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, in February 2010 after a routine mammogram. This type of breast most cancers, generally known as stage 0 breast cancer, makes up roughly 1 in 5 new breast most cancers diagnoses, in accordance with the American Most cancers Society, which says that “practically all girls” with this analysis may be cured. 

She underwent a lumpectomy and 6 weeks of radiation following that analysis and introduced later that yr that she was “cancer-free.” 

Navratilova has received extra singles tournaments, doubles occasions and matches than any male or feminine tennis participant for the reason that Open Period started in 1968, in accordance with the International Tennis Hall of Fame, which stated she “bulldozed and mowed down opponents in historic proportions.” 

Born in Czechoslovakia, she turned a U.S. citizen in 1981, and has been a serious title holder since 1975, when she received in doubles on the French Open. She has been named the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation’s “Tour Participant of the 12 months” seven occasions, and has been ranked by a number of information and sports activities organizations as the most effective athletes of particular years and of the century. 

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