Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova suffers from Breast Cancer

The tennis champion Martina Navratilova has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. She has won the Wimbledon trophy for nine times and proved her excellence in tennis.

Navratilova cried after she was informed about this bad news followed by the routine checkup.

According to the reports Your browser may not support display of this image. Navratilova had a lumpectomy and the treatment will begin nest month that will include radiation therapy for six weeks. She has been diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS.

Your browser may not support display of this image. A San Francisco surgeon says that around 70,000 American women are hit by DCIS in a year and there’s just a 1 percent chance that anyone suffering from the breast cancer dies.