Martina NavratilovaPress Cable

just a few months ago Martina Navratilova announced that it had happened diagnosed with throat and breast cancer, the latter already suffered in 2010. After all, it was not metastases, but an independent tumor, so it was easier to treat. Now, the tennis legend has confirmed that he is too He has overcome cancer. “As far as the doctors know, I’m clean,” the extension expert has recounted in an interview in England.

Navratilova railed that the BBC paid her ten times less than McEnroe to comment on Wimbledon

The tennis player, who won 59 Grand Slam titles throughout her sporting career, admits that “I was completely panicked for three days, thinking that I might not see next Christmas. A wish list of all the things I want to do comes to mind. And that might sound super corny, but I was like… ‘Okay, what car would I want to drive if I lived a year?’”

rough treatment

Navratilova, 66, suspected something was wrong in November, when saw a swelling in the neck that wouldn’t go down. Her representative told her that during the Women’s Tennis Association finals she noticed enlarged lymph nodes in her neck area. For that, when they see nothing back to normal, they do a biopsy. In turn, they also found a suspicious shape on his chest which eventually became cancerous, but unrelated to the one in his throat.

From the time the tumor was detected, tennis players have experienced a strict daily radiation treatments for three weeks coupled with three weekly episodes of chemotherapydifficult treatment process.

“That was the hard part because the first week was chemo and radiation at the same time. When you start to feel bad, you’re not sure if it’s the chemo or the protons. I didn’t really feel protons until week three, but then your mouth hurts and your throat starts to get stuffy. Everything is swollen and very uncomfortable and the protons make your drool weird.”recalled the tennis player on the television program.

not going to be a mother

The tennis player also admitted that The disease has put a halt to his adoption plans with his partnerJulia Lemigova, who has two daughters from a previous relationship. “I thought it was a good idea for a while, but it has revealed that I am no longer the youngest and I don’t want to be a grandma on the playground.”Navratilova has confessed.