The 66-year-old tennis legend learned she had both breast and throat cancer in December.
Martina said she’d been in “a total panic for three days thinking I may not see next Christmas” after first learning of her diagnosis in December.She said: “Well [I had] a sense of foreboding when I asked the doctor, ‘What do you the chances are?’ and he says, ‘About 50/50’. I was like, ‘I don’t like those odds’.
“It was, again, very up and down. So, I find out it’s throat cancer, I think I could be dying but I find out, no, it’s very treatable. Then they found the right breast and when I had the biopsy on the right breast, the doctor was saying, ‘erm this doesn’t look great’.
Martina, who previously underwent treatment for early-stage breast cancer in 2010, said she was determined to overcome the disease, adding: “What was the alternative? Giving up? Giving in? Stopping? That’s just not an option for me… quitting is just not in my DNA.”
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