Tennis great Martina Navratilova 'has breast cancer'

[Mike Rotchtickles]

Former tennis champion Martina Navratilova has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Speaking to US magazine People, she said she had cried after finding out.

"I feel so in control of my life and my body, and then this comes, and it's completely out of my hands," she is quoted as saying by the magazine.

According to the report, her prognosis is excellent. During her career, she won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, nine of them at Wimbledon.

Navratilova, 53, said she was fortunate that the disease had been detected early thanks to a routine mammogram.

"Another year and I could have been in big trouble," she told the magazine.

Navratilova has had a lumpectomy and will begin six weeks of radiation therapy in May, the report says.

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Sad news. Hopefully she will be able to make a full recovery.

[SoundfSilence]

Very sad.. Hope she gets through this.

[coke4]

Between the early detection and the fact she is famous she will be fine

[Otlichno]

My best wishes to Martina, but the information the media are giving us is misleading.
DCIS is not breast cancer, but a premalign stadium that could develop into cancer. It can usually be eliminated by removing just small part of the breast, and prognosis is excellent.
If Martina and her doctors co-operate in order to have a regular follow-up, she should be more than okay.