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Great news: Martina Navratilova beats cancer

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About four months after being diagnosed with throat and breast cancer, Martina Navratilova announces that treatments were successful and that she is now cancer-free.

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The 66-year-old Navratilova told TalkTV’s Piers Morgan that she has managed to eliminate both cancers, which were unrelated to each other and her health prognosis was 50/50. Fortunately, the treatment was effective and the doctors consider the tennis legend to be cancer-free. Still, she’ll undergo a few more preventative treatments: “I still need to do the right breast probably with radiation but only for a couple of weeks and that’s more preventative than anything else.