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Navratilova's Life and Times
Jeannie Navratilova was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 after going four years without a mammogram. Her sister Virginia Everett Dubin fought ovarian cancer until her arms were bruised by needles and ports and she wasted to less than 80 pounds. Nearly two years after Jeannie's death in November 2021, Everett got a call out of the blue from the Cleveland Clinic. Genetic testing that Jeannie had undergone during her illness had been reappraised with new study and she had a Braca One variant that was pathogenic. The doctor recommended that Everett get tested immediately. At over 60, she could still go for two hours on a court with women a third her age.
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