Martina Navratilova has mentioned she is “cancer free” after she had been recognized with throat and breast cancers.
The former world tennis primary will endure additional preventative radiation remedy after the analysis left her fearing she “may not see next Christmas”.
The 66-year-old informed Piers Morgan on Talk TV in an interview to be aired on Tuesday: “As far as they know I’m cancer free.”
Speaking about her response to the analysis, which she revealed in January, she was quoted in The Sun: “I was in a total panic for three days thinking I may not see next Christmas.
“The bucket record got here into my thoughts of all of the issues I needed to do.”
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Ms Navratilova, who gained 59 grand slam singles and doubles titles, went to the physician after noticing an enlarged lymph node in her neck.
Tests subsequently confirmed it was most cancers.
“This was the first week in December, [I’m thinking] I will see this Christmas, but maybe not the next one,” she mentioned.
But docs had been in a position to inform her the most cancers was “extremely treatable” and she or he had a “95%” probability of a full restoration.
Ms Navratilova underwent remedy for early-stage breast most cancers in 2010.
Navratilova additionally revealed that songs by Sir Elton John that had been performed by nurses whereas she was in chemotherapy helped get her by means of the remedy.
“You pick your music that you want to listen to,” she mentioned.
“One time I picked Elton John, and then he starts singing I’m Still Standing, which he dedicated to me at a concert in Paris during the French Open in the eighties.”
Source: information.sky.com”