Football fight against cancer
“It’s not getting better,” says Daum after more than 20 rounds of chemotherapy
Status: 09.01.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Christoph Daum suffers from lung cancer
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Christoph Daum has been battling cancer for almost two years. Now the former football coach reports with a disturbing interim conclusion. But he doesn’t give up hope.
Christoph Daum has been battling lung cancer for almost two years. The former master trainer has already undergone over 20 rounds of chemotherapy – and still has to continue the treatment. Because he hasn’t beaten cancer yet.
After the 70-year-old spent the New Year in Austria and attended a carnival event in Cologne with his wife on Friday, he now wants to recharge his batteries for his recovery in the sun. Together with Reiner Calmund we are going to Thailand to relax in a few days. Daum’s doctors allowed him to travel to Southeast Asia.
“Such a change of scenery is definitely good. Watching something different for a few days is really good for your psyche. The trip has also been completely agreed upon with the doctors,” Daum told the Cologne “Express”. Last October he stated that he had not yet healed. “Unfortunately, cancer is very insidious; the metastases can suddenly explode somewhere else in the body. Then you have the ass card,” said the former coach at the time.
No improvement
Now, almost three months later, Daum cannot yet report a real breakthrough. When asked about his current condition, he told the “Express”: “According to the circumstances. It will not get better. But the situation has not worsened since the last examination.” The long-term treatment against stubborn lung cancer is taking a toll on Daum mentally. “I just commute between home and the university clinic. It’s stressful, even if I’m treated wonderfully.”
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At the end of October 2022, Daum made his cancer public on Instagram, writing: “Unfortunately, I have had to withdraw from the public in the past few months because I received a cancer diagnosis as part of a routine examination.” A few months later, there was great concern for Daum, as He contracted pneumonia while visiting his son in New York and ended up in the intensive care unit.
