Startling Diagnosis of DCIS Breast Cancer Type in Tennis star Martina Navratilova

Lately, Tennis star Martina Navratilova made a heartening revelation about her on-going fight with DCIS breast cancer type.

Having won Wimbledon Singles for 9 times, the champ expressed the reports as a tragedy with as much marring effects as that of the 9/11 attacks. After getting news of her diagnosis with breast cancer type DCIS during February, Navratilova stated that she wept inconsolably.

The over fifty year old tennis legend who has taken retirement from competitive tennis just 3 years back was in a state of utter disbelief and the news was nothing short of a bolt from the blue.

Navratilova unequivocally spoke about feeling completely inundated with grief and her life being way beyond her control.

She stated that in her impressive lengthy tennis career spanning decades, she has come across really hard-hitting contenders on the court like Seles, Steffi Graf, Serena and Venus Williams among several others.

Though what she never predicted was being faced with the strongest opponent off the net – cancer.

She added that she firstly received the reports of her being diagnosed with breast cancer type DCIS while she was by herself at her house and was taken aback, besieged and in a state of utter devastation.

What really stunned her was that despite being actively involved in the field of sports for all her life, having followed a healthful way of existence by eating right and being fit, yet she had developed the disease. Such favourable facets of her life only seemed to fuel nagging queries about ‘why it had to be me’ in the initial couple of days after getting the news.

However, she mentioned that in spite of the downside being that it was breast cancer – the positive aspect about it is was no apparent metastasis has occurred till then.

Having won the Grand Slam singles for eighteen times, Navratilova stated that her foremost thoughts on learning about having being diagnosed with cancer in the left breast were worries about disfigurement as opposed to fatality. She confessed about her worries about losing her breast and hair.

However, Navratilova’s gynaecologist, Dr. Mindy Nagle states that her case is the best-possible setting imaginable for identifying breast cancer. According to doctors options her chances of recovery are ideal since they have detected the cancer in its earlier staging.

Martina has DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) – a non-invasive type of breast cancer that had not yet spread past the breast tissues and was yet only present in the milk ducts.

Born in Czechoslovakia, Navratilova has been through a lumpectomy procedure in mid-March for excision of malignant tissues.

Just fourteen days after, she was an active participant in a triathlon and intends on commencing her radiation therapy while in Paris that would help her continue commentating while she treatment ensues.

She spoke about undergoing radiation treatment due to her breast cancer being of the grade three type which is believed to have greater aggressiveness.

Martina has insisted upon all women to undergo mammograms annually since by the time lumps develop, it would get quite late. She does hold herself responsible to a major extent to having postponed her mammogram screening for nearly four years.