Martina Navratilova - Breast Cancer

Cleopatra_Rebel

Today i learned that sporting tennis legend Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer..this is so sad..i hope she can fight it!

abouttobebanned

Hopefully her family will rally around her.

get well soon MN

The Volt

Breast Cancer? Looks like she's going to lose the women's doubles this time.

abouttobebanned

Who won the battle of the thanks?

You decide!

Cookie_Monster

so what

brummytom

It's a shame, but it's lucky they caught it early - means there's more chance of her being well within a few months.

Best of luck to her, it's a horrible, evil illness

The_Minister

Voltwad wrote: »

Breast Cancer? Looks like she's going to lose the women's doubles this time.

I actually clicked off the thread before I got that.

glanman

I saw this on RTE.ie today, not in the sports headlines, but in the entertainment headlines, something like "Jungle star navratilova has cancer".... FFS, I think she is probably better known as a tennis player rather than a reality star!

bleg

glanman wrote: »

I saw this on RTE.ie today, not in the sports headlines, but in the entertainment headlines, something like "Jungle star navratilova has cancer".... FFS, I think she is probably better known as a tennis player rather than a reality star!

That one from I'm a celebrity played tennis!?!?!

I thought she was just a famous lezzer.

_Bella_

Shes quite lucky with the type of cancer she has, only 1% of people with the form she has die from it.

Heisenberg.

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admiralofthefleet

she can finally play with the boys now

MJ23

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

she can finally play with the boys now

You ignorant little príck. It comes to everyones door, hope you remember that.
Small apples.........

glanman

bleg wrote: »

That one from I'm a celebrity played tennis!?!?!

I thought she was just a famous lezzer.

OMG i can't believe you haven't got like a gazillion thanks for that great comment, AH is quite a pointless place these days...

biko

http://www.rte.ie/sport/tennis/2010/0407/navratiolva.html
Martina Navratilova diagnosed with breast cancer
Wednesday, 7 April 2010 21:52

Martina Navratilova has announced she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

The 53-year-old was diagnosed with a non-invasive form of the disease called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in February.

The nine-time Wimbledon champion admitted she was completely shocked by the diagnosis although the prognosis is positive.

Navratilova told People magazine: 'I cried. It knocked me on my *** really.

'I feel so in control of my life and my body, and then this comes, and it's completely out of my hands.'

Dr Mindy Nagle added: 'It was the best-case scenario you could imagine for detecting breast cancer' while Dr Shelley Hwang, a breast surgeon at UC San Francisco, said there is only a 1% chance those diagnosed with DCIS will die as a result.

Ghost Train

The story I heard was that it was caught really early and completely removed, but fealt she should speak out to show how important going for mammogram is. All sounded very positive for her health

biko

MJ23 wrote: »

You ignorant little príck. It comes to everyones door, hope you remember that.
Small apples.........

Even if you have reason for disliking jokes about cancer, insulting is not on.
Report the post if you find it offensive. Welcome back after your ban.

El Siglo

In fairness, when a thread emerges regarding cancer, even in AH it's not something that should ever be laughed at. Most things do get the piss taken out of them, but considering the impact cancer has on all of us, a little bit of tact goes a long way. As the saying goes, "if you've got nothing nice to say about somebody, don't say anything at all".

Donkey Oaty

El Siglo wrote: »

In fairness, when a thread emerges regarding cancer, even in AH it's not something that should ever be laughed at.

Personally I think cancer is hilarious.

El Siglo wrote: »

As the saying goes, "if you've got nothing nice to say about somebody, don't say anything at all".

Well, er...give me a moment...that's a nice use of italics!

SV

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Personally I think cancer is hilarious.

Personally I think that comment is retarded/

brummytom

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Personally I think cancer is hilarious.

You have just over a 1 in 3 chance of developing cancer in your life. Would you still find it 'hilarious' if you were dying of it?

Donkey Oaty

brummytom wrote: »

Would you still find it 'hilarious' if you were dying of it?

Even more so, I would imagine.

El Siglo

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Even more so, I would imagine.

Must be a great time for trolling.

Horse_box

I wish her the breast of luck in her recovery

Donkey Oaty

El Siglo wrote: »

Must be a great time for trolling.

If you can't say anything nice, etc etc.

I do not derive any amusement from the fact that people suffer from cancer. But cancer itself, that's another matter. If I was dying of cancer I hope I'd approach it with a positive attitude, like Bill Hicks or John Diamond did, rather than relying on sanctimonious platitudes.

El Siglo

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

If you can't say anything nice, etc etc.

I do not derive any amusement from the fact that people suffer from cancer. But cancer itself, that's another matter. If I was dying of cancer I hope I'd approach it with a positive attitude, like Bill Hicks or John Diamond did, rather than relying on sanctimonious platitudes.

I suppose that's one way of looking at it. From personal experience however, dying of cancer isn't funny, it's a slow, painful, degrading process that usually leaves a shadow of a person that only close relatives and friends can recognise. I'm not relying on "sanctimonious platitudes", I'm drawing the line between laughing with somebody and laughing at somebody with cancer. It might be nice to think how well, Bill Hicks and John Diamond dealt with cancer, but the average person isn't Bill Hicks or John Diamond and having a positive attitude isn't exactly easy when a person is puking their ring up after a dose of chemo.

Le King

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Personally I think cancer is hilarious.

I'd love to give you a good course of Radio and see how hilarious it is then.

Donkey Oaty

El Siglo wrote: »

I suppose that's one way of looking at it. From personal experience however, dying of cancer isn't funny, it's a slow, painful, degrading process that usually leaves a shadow of a person that only close relatives and friends can recognise. I'm not relying on "sanctimonious platitudes", I'm drawing the line between laughing with somebody and laughing at somebody with cancer. It might be nice to think how well, Bill Hicks and John Diamond dealt with cancer, but the average person isn't Bill Hicks or John Diamond and having a positive attitude isn't exactly easy when a person is puking their ring up after a dose of chemo.

Fair points you make there, and I'm inclined to agree. My beef is really about how cancer is treated in the popular media and I accept that my post did not make that clear.

I Drink It Up!

I thought you needed breasts before you could have breast cancer?

Crann na Beatha

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genericguy

apparently it's non-invasive, she'll be fine assuming she can afford to pay for good treatment. in ireland you'd probably die because of the hse rather than your illness, but in a developed country you'd likely survive that.

Donkey Oaty

Iolar wrote: »

Come see my grandmother right now in the hospice ward,will ya still think cancer is hilarious?

Hospice wards can be fun-filled, upbeat places, but I think I will turn down your kind invitation on the grounds that I fall into the following category as defined by Art Buchwald in his hospice memoir "Too Soon to Say Goodbye":

"There were people who showed up that I couldn’t have cared less about. They decided if they came to see me they were doing a good deed, and they would be able to tell other people that they had seen me."

brummytom

I Drink It Up! wrote: »

I thought you needed breasts before you could have breast cancer?

We all have breast tissue, women's are just generally more pronounced. Men get breast cancer too.

SlabMurphy

Cleopatra_Rebel wrote: »

Today i learned that sporting tennis legend Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer..this is so sad..i hope she can fight it!

Martina Navratilova, one of the Czechs greatest sportsmen of all time.

spudmonkey17

This thread really shouldn't be in AH imo...

It's an invitation for certain people to provoke others with smart-ass comments.

I Drink It Up!

spudmonkey17 wrote: »

This thread really shouldn't be in AH imo...

It's an invitation for certain people to provoke others with smart-ass comments.

smart-tit comments, actually.

bnt

There's also a genetic component to it, some women are more susceptible than others. A couple of years ago, actress Christina Applegate (Married With Children, Samantha Who?) found a lump, and because her family has a history of breast cancer, she chose to have a double mastectomy, followed by reconstructive surgery - all without missing a day of scheduled TV work.

Ammonite

Disgusted by some of the remarks on this thread. I'm by no means a political correctness freak but that is juvenile and just not funny.