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Tennis great Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer

Martina Navratilova looks on after the Women's Singles Final match during the 2022 U.S. Open in New York. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

Martina Navratilova, the tennis legend who dominated the sport in the 1970s and 1980s and won 59 major titles during her historic career, has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer.

Navratilova, 66, will start treatment later this month, she announced Monday. "The prognosis is good," her agent Mary Greenham said in an email to NPR. "Both these cancers are in their early stages with great outcomes."

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