Former world women’s tennis player, age 66, winner of 18 Grand Slam tournaments, Navratilova said in early January that she had a dual diagnosis, but now she comes to say the news is good, despite still having to undergo preventive radiotherapy.
“As far as they could see, I no longer have cancer,” the former player was quoted by the British press, following an interview she gave to Piers Morgan, which will be broadcast today on the TalkTv program.
Martina Navratilova, an American of Czech descent, also revealed that she panicked for three days when she got the disease and thought she wouldn’t make it to next Christmas.
The former player had already been treated for early-stage breast cancer in 2010 and was consulted this time after an enlarged ganglion in the neck area was found.
“It was the first week of December. I told myself I’d be there for Christmas, but maybe not next,” he began by saying, before the doctors revealed the situation was treatable, with cure options in the range of 95. %.
Martina Navratilova is one of the greats in tennis history and marked an ‘epoch’ in the sport, having spent 332 weeks as world number one between 1978 and 1987 and winning a total of 59 Grand Slam titles, a record in the Open era. , divided into 18 singles, 31 female pairs and 10 mixed pairs.
In terms of history, he holds a total of 167 singles titles and 177 doubles titles, figures that represent records in the Open Era.
Source: DN
