Tennis star Martina Navratilova has been suffering from cancer.
Martina Navratilova, the tennis legend who dominated the sport in the 1970s and 1980s and won 59 major titles during her historic career, has been diagnosed with throat and breast Cancer.
Navratilova will start treatment later this month, she announced Monday. "Both these cancers are in their early stages.
Navratilova, who works as a tennis commentator, noticed an enlarged lymph node on her neck during the Women's Tennis Association finals in Fort Worth, Texas, last fall, her agent said. A biopsy revealed it to be stage 1 throat Cancer.
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This is Navratilova's second bout with Cancer. In 2010, she announced that she was being treated for breast cancer after a tumor was discovered during a routine mammogram.
Navratilova was born in Prague in 1956 when the city was part of communist Czechoslovakia. As a teenager, she quickly became a tennis standout, winning her first professional singles title in the U.S. in 1974.
As a teenager, she quickly became a tennis standout, winning her first professional singles title in the U.S. in 1974.
Her move to the United States came as women's professional tennis blossomed, with famous and electric stars like Billie Jean King and Chris Evert.