LEAGUE legend Tom Raudonikis has revealed he only has a one in three chance of survival in his latest cancer battle.

The 67 year old has battled cancer twice before: in 1986 with testicular cancer and in 2014 with throat cancer.

Fairfax reports today that the Western Suburbs Magpies legend now has cancer of the neck and his surgeon has told him he has only a one-in-three chance of survival.

media_camera A bloodied Tom Raudonikis comes off the field during a Newtown v Parramatta game at Henson Park in 1980. Picture: John Burney.

Now based on the Gold Coast, Raudonikis will make daily trips to Brisbane for treatment on the “very aggressive” cancer.

“I’ve got to keep going,” Fairfax quoted him as saying.

After his 2014 throat cancer diagnosis, Raudonikis told the Courier Mail his enormous tobacco intake was probably responsible for the disease.

“I had a few knocks in the neck when I was playing but I think smoking had a fair bit to do with it,” he said.

“I was smoking 100 cigarettes a day coaching Wests.”

media_camera As Blues coach in 1997.

Raudonikis played in the very first Origin encounter as the Blues halfback in 1980 and went on to coach the team in 1997 and 1998.

He played 24 times for New South Wales and 20 Test matches for Australia and was the dominant halfback of the 1970s.

In addition to his decade with the Magpies (and later coaching gig), he played three seasons with Newtown.

media_camera Playing for Newtown in his final season, 1982. Raudonikis was known as the League’s dominant player of the 1970s.