Because of his testicular cancer and the resulting chemotherapy, Borussia Dortmund will have to do without Sébastien Haller for several months. Hopeful shots of the new BVB signing are now circulating on Instagram.
In mid-July, in the middle of Borussia Dortmund’s summer preparations at the training camp in Bad Ragaz, the bad news broke: a testicular tumor was discovered in Sébastien Haller. An operation followed, the tumor turned out to be malignant in the histological examination.
The 28-year-old attacker is currently undergoing chemotherapy. “Definitely a few months” the newcomer from Ajax Amsterdam will be out, said BVB sports director Sebastian Kehl.
Light strength training in BVB clothing
Haller and his wife Priscilla let the fans participate in the fight of the former Frankfurter against cancer via Instagram.
The repost of a story on the professional’s channel showed him in BVB clothing doing light training in the home gym. Haller is now hairless, probably as a result of the chemotherapeutic treatment. The Ivorian international also shared a picture of him doing boxing training with a coach.
Haller had completed a sports medical examination just a few weeks before his devastating diagnosis as part of the move from Ajax to BVB.
The tumor was not discovered – a “oversight”, as the oncologist Prof. Dr. Alexander Herzog recently explained in an interview with the “DAZN Group”.
BVB: Urological examination not mandatory
“Diagnosing a testicular tumor is very easy,” said the expert. “On the one hand you can feel it when you touch the testicles as a doctor, on the other hand if you have any doubts you can do an ultrasound and then you automatically saw the tumor.” This already works “from a size of five millimeters or less,” continues Herzog.
But it is also clear that according to the DFL statutes, no special urological examination is required for the medical check-up.
Only blood and urine tests are checked for abnormal values. This obviously did not exist in the Haller case.