Martina Navratilova Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Tennis champion Martina Navratilova is unfortunately diagnosed with breast cancer. The openly Lesbian tennis player is in the early stages of treatment and will undergo radiation in May. Navratilova stated that she was shocked since being an athlete, she has always had good health. She did state that she wished she went more often to get a mammogram so that they could have detected it sooner, even though they detected this cluster in her breast at a very treatable time.
According to CNN, officially, she is diagnosed with a non-invasive form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, which in her case was confined to the milk ducts and had not spread to the breast tissue. “It was the best-case scenario you could imagine for detecting breast cancer,” Dr. Mindy Nagle, a good friend of Navratilova’s (and her ob gyn)
We hope for the best for the tennis great and wish her good treatment and a road to being cancer free. We also hope that many women will get screened early and often.
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