Navratilova says she is cancer-free, returns to her TV work

LONDON — Martina Navratilova returned to TV work at Tennis Channel for its protection of the Miami Open on Tuesday, lower than three months after saying she had throat most cancers and breast most cancers.

“It’s great to be back. … Thrilled to be here,” mentioned the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. “So happy to be working. How many people can say that?”

The 66-year-old Navratilova mentioned her sense of style disappeared in the course of the remedy for most cancers and he or she misplaced 15 kilos. She didn’t seem on tv in the course of the Australian Open in January or the BNP Paribas Open this month.

“It puts you face-to-face with your mortality, No. 1, because at the beginning, I wasn’t sure if it was treatable, so that was hard,” she mentioned. “But once I got into the program, it was a little easier emotionally, but more difficult physically. … But I’m still standing.”

In an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV scheduled to air Tuesday, Navratilova mentioned she has been instructed by docs that, “as far as they know, I’m cancer-free,” and that she ought to be “good to go” after some extra radiation remedy.

According to The Sun newspaper, Navratilova additionally instructed Morgan that when she was identified, “I was in a total panic for three days, thinking I may not see next Christmas” and got here up with a bucket record of issues she needed to do.

She observed an enlarged lymph node in her neck whereas attending the season-ending WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in November, and a biopsy confirmed early stage throat most cancers. While Navratilova was present process checks on her throat, she mentioned, the unrelated, early stage breast most cancers was found.

Navratilova was identified with a noninvasive type of breast most cancers in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.

She gained 59 Grand Slam titles total, together with 31 in ladies’s doubles and 10 in combined doubles. The final was a combined doubles championship with Bob Bryan on the 2006 U.S. Open, a month shy of her fiftieth birthday.