Martina Navratilova reveals she's "cancer-free" after fearing she'd "not see Christmas"

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diagnosed with stage one throat and breast cancer in January. But in an emotional interview with Piers Morgan for TalkTV to be screened on Tuesday, the 66-year-old shared the news that she has now been cleared. "As far as they know I’m cancer-free," Navratilova said, claiming she "should be good to go" following more preventative radiation on her breast over a two-week period.

18-time Grand Slam champion Navratilova was forced to put plans to adopt a child with wife Julia Lemigova on hold when she discovered her heartbreaking diagnosis at the start of the year. “I was in a total panic for three days thinking I may not see next Christmas," she said. "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, okay, ‘Which kick-a** car do I really want to drive if I live like a year?’"The Czech-American, who had breast cancer in 2010, visited doctors with an enlarged lymph node in her neck at the WTA finals in Texas.

She said: "I noticed that my left lymph node was enlarged and I thought it was from a shingles vaccine I’d had a week before.