News, Figure skater Dorothy Hamill battles breast cancer. (Broadway, 2008)

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BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- Former Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

Hamill said in a statement Friday that she is being treated at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.

The prognosis is favorable, but the 51-year-old Hamill said she will miss some of the "Broadway on Ice" tour while she is having treatment.

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