Tennis nice Martina Navratilova mentioned Monday that she has been recognized with throat most cancers and breast most cancers.
In a remark launched through her consultant, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame mentioned her analysis is excellent and she is going to get started remedy this month.
“This double whammy is serious but still fixable, and I’m hoping for a favourable outcome,” the 66-year-old Navratilova mentioned. “It’s going to stink for a while but I’ll fight with all have I got.”
She mentioned she spotted an enlarged lymph node in her neck whilst attending the season-ending WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in November, and a biopsy confirmed early-stage throat most cancers. While Navratilova used to be present process assessments on her throat, she mentioned, the unrelated, early-stage breast most cancers used to be found out.
Floods of messages of beef up poured in on social media when the inside track broke – together with from former every other World No.1 American Bille Jean-King.
“Needless to say my phone and Twitter are both blowing up so I will say again – thank you all for your support and I am not done yet,” she tweeted Monday.
Navratilova used to be recognized with a noninvasive type of breast most cancers in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.
She gained 59 Grand Slam titles general, together with 31 in girls’s doubles and 10 in combined doubles. The closing used to be a combined doubles championship with Bob Bryan on the 2006 U.S. Open, a month shy of her fiftieth birthday.
