(CNN) Tennis great Martina Navratilova “Her prognosis is excellent,” she says, after being diagnosed with throat and breast cancer.
In an interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV, Navratilova said: “I mean, as far as they know I’m cancer-free… I definitely wouldn’t miss any of the tests I get. I’d be very happy, very diligent about it, but the prognosis is excellent. But you don’t know.” never “.
The 66-year-old Navratilova, who has won 59 Grand Slam titles and doubles titles over the course of her illustrious career, discovered an enlarged lymph node in her neck during the WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas last year.
After a biopsy, she was later diagnosed with stage 1 throat cancer, her agent, Mary Greenham, told CNN in January. While undergoing throat tests, Greenham said, a suspicious shape was found in Navratilova’s breast, which was later diagnosed as cancer.
“It was again up and down, right?” Navratilova said in the TalkTV interview that aired on Tuesday.
“So, I found out it was throat cancer, I think I might die but I found out no, it’s very treatable. Then they found the right breast and when I took the biopsy from the right breast, the doctor was like, ‘This doesn’t look great.'”
And when she said I was like, ‘Wow, I have another cancer?’ And that’s when I start crying on the counter because she’s still noticing my breast samples and I say, “Oh wow, I have two cancers at the same time that aren’t related.”
Navratilova plays backhand at the 1993 US Open.
Navratilova, who was previously diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, has spoken out about her resolve after receiving a dual diagnosis.
“What was the alternative? Giving up? Giving up? Stopping?” She said. “It’s just not an option for me… Quitting is just not in my DNA.”
Since retiring from tennis, Navratilova has served as a coach, broadcaster, and ambassador for the WTA Tour. She still holds the WTA record of 167 singles titles, 10 more than longtime friend and rival Chris Evert, who he said in January She is “cancer-free” after she was He was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer.
After Greenham asked his friends to send Navratilova a letter and song, Evert sent Bill Withers’ song “Lean On Me”.
“I couldn’t even read that stuff,” Navratilova said. “When Mary first sent it to me, I just started crying… I started reading it and saying, ‘I can’t listen to the music because I’m sure I’m going to yell out of my eyes.'”
“One day, I read a little bit of what everyone had written because it was so touching.”
CNN’s Ben Church contributed to this report.
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