Star forced into retirement by heartbreaking diagnosis

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A 2nd bosom crab diagnosis has forced Sydney Flames WNBL weapon Tiana Mangakahia into an aboriginal retirement.

The 28-year-old took to societal media connected Monday greeting announcing she had been diagnosed with signifier 4 bosom crab "which has dispersed into different areas of my body".

It's a 2nd crab diagnosis successful 4 years. She was initially diagnosed with signifier 2 bosom crab successful June 2019.

In her societal media statement, Mangakahia said she didn't deliberation she would beryllium making a status announcement until she was having children.

Tiana Mangakahia playing for the Flames. (Getty)

"However, present we spell … hoops has been a portion of my beingness for the past 23 years. The experiences I person endured and the magnitude of joyousness this astonishing athletics has brought maine are excessively overwhelming to explain," she said.

"Without going into excessively overmuch item I person precocious been diagnosed with signifier IV bosom crab which has dispersed into different areas of my body.

"Sadly, I person been informed by specialists it's clip for maine to discontinue and deliberation astir beingness aft being a nonrecreational athlete."

Mangakahia was playing assemblage hoops successful the US during her archetypal diagnosis, and stayed determination to person treatment.

She underwent a treble mastectomy and was declared cancer-free the pursuing February.

Flames main Chris Prongrass said the nine was devastated by the news.

"It is hard to explicit however important Tiana has been for this organisation," helium said.

"The Flames volition proceed to enactment Tiana passim the adjacent signifier successful her career; she volition ever beryllium portion of the Flames household and we are excited to assistance her proceed to turn and make successful basketball."

Mangakahia vowed that portion her on-court clip is finished, she would instrumentality an progressive relation successful coaching.

"There person been ups and downs passim my vocation and life.

Mangakahia successful enactment against the Melbourne Boomers successful February. (Getty)

"I cognize that careless of this horrible disease, I volition proceed to beryllium maine and situation myself with those who emotion and enactment me.

"While my hoops travel connected the tribunal has travel to a close, this won't beryllium the past clip you spot maine progressive with the sport.

"Even though my travel is uncertain, what I americium definite astir is my passionateness for beingness and bringing greater consciousness passim the assemblage astir this nasty disease.

"I americium looking guardant to pursuing a vocation successful coaching and giving backmost to the athletics that has fixed truthful overmuch to me.

"Cancer does scare maine but not surviving beingness to its afloat imaginable scares maine adjacent more."

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