Tennis ace, Martina Navratilova suffering with both throat and breast cancer.

Posted 1 years ago

After diagnosis, medical representatives has concluded that Tennis legend, Martina Navratilova has been suffering with both stage one throat and breast cancer.

This shocking development comes 13 years after radiation treatment helped her to completely recover from breast cancer. Later, Navratilova referred to the recent diagnosis and revealed that the stage is serious but fixable.

Navratilova said she underwent testing in November after finding an enlarged lymph node in her neck during the WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. Her doctors found stage one throat cancer and, later, unrelated stage one breast cancer.

She battled breast cancer once before in 2010, undergoing a successful lumpectomy to remove the cancerous cells.

Navratilova, widely considered one of the best tennis players of all time, has won 59 Grand Slam titles overall, including 31 in women's doubles and 10 in mixed doubles. The last was a mixed doubles championship with Bob Bryan at the 2006 U.S. Open.

She originally retired in 1994, after a record 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings. Later she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000.