Martina Navratilova reveals she is ‘cancer-free’ after throat and breast diagnoses

Martina Navratilova has disclosed she is in remission having been diagnosed with throat and breast cancers.

The 66-year-old, widely recognised as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, had been diagnosed with stage one of the disease in January.

In an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, to be broadcast on Tuesday, she said: “As far as they know I’m cancer-free.”

Navratilova, the winner of nine Wimbledon singles titles, said she “should be good to go” after more preventive radiation on her breast over a two-week period.

The Czech-American was forced to postpone plans to adopt a child with her wife, Julia Lemigova, when she was diagnosed. She said: “I was in a total panic for three days thinking I may not see next Christmas.

“The bucket list came into my mind of all the things I wanted to do. And this may sound really shallow, but I was like, OK, ‘which kick-ass car do I really want to drive if I live like a year?’”

The 18-time grand slam champion previously underwent treatment for early-stage breast cancer in 2010. She said she visited doctors with an enlarged lymph node in her neck at the WTA finals in Texas.

Navratilova told TalkTV: “I noticed that my left lymph node was enlarged and I thought it was from a shingles vaccine I’d had a week before. But then a couple of weeks on it didn’t go down so I called the doctor.”

Biopsy results indicated cancer but the tennis pundit had to wait four days to find out where it originated in her body.

Navratilova opened up on how she was left “very up and down” during the illness due to undergoing radiation treatment every day for three weeks and three weekly rounds of chemotherapy, which she stated was “definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done”.

“That was the hard part