Tennis star Martina Navratilova diagnosed with two forms of cancer

She said doctors found a “double whammy” after the November WTA final when she was diagnosed with an enlarged lymph node.

On Monday, tennis great Martina Navratilova announced that she had been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. Both cancers are in the first stage and the prognosis is good, she said in a statement to the Women’s Tennis Association website.

“This double whammy is serious, but still fixable. I hope for a favorable outcome,” Navratilova said in a statement. “It will stink for a while, but I will fight with all my might.”

Navratilova, 66, said she had a checkup in November after she was diagnosed with an enlarged lymph node in her neck during the WTA finals in Fort Worth, Texas. Her doctors discovered stage 1 throat cancer and later unrelated stage 1 breast cancer.

One day in 2010, she battled breast cancer by undergoing a successful lumpectomy to remove the cancer cells.

“I didn’t need chemo,” she told CNN at the time. “The operation was minor. I was discharged from the hospital that day, so there was nothing that could hit my butt hard and really hurt me, so I’m lucky to have cancer that can be controlled in this way.”

Considered by many to be one of the best tennis players of all time, Navratilova has won 59 Grand Slam titles overall, including 31 in women’s doubles and 10 in mixed doubles. The last was the mixed doubles championship with Bob Bryan at the 2006 US Open, a month before her 50th birthday.

She initially retired in 1994 after a record 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She returned to the tour to play doubles in 2000 and occasionally singles.

Navratilova was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. In recent years, she has worked as a television analyst.

According to the WTA, Navratilova’s treatment will begin next week, mostly in New York. She does not plan to be a regular feature on Tennis Channel’s coverage of the Australian Open this month, but hopes to join them via video link from time to time.

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