Martina Navratilova reveals she's "cancer-free" after fearing she'd "not see Christmas"
msn.comdiagnosed with stage one throat and breast cancer in January. But in an emotional interview with Piers Morgan for TalkTV to be screened on Tuesday, the 66-year-old shared the news that she has now been cleared. "As far as they know I’m cancer-free," Navratilova said, claiming she "should be good to go" following more preventative radiation on her breast over a two-week period.
18-time Grand Slam champion Navratilova was forced to put plans to adopt a child with wife Julia Lemigova on hold when she discovered her heartbreaking diagnosis at the start of the year. “I was in a total panic for three days thinking I may not see next Christmas," she said. "The bucket list came into my mind of all the things I wanted to do.
And this may sound really shallow, but I was like, okay, ‘Which kick-a** car do I really want to drive if I live like a year?’"The Czech-American, who had breast cancer in 2010, visited doctors with an enlarged lymph node in her neck at the WTA finals in Texas.
She said: "I noticed that my left lymph node was enlarged and I thought it was from a shingles vaccine I’d had a week before.
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