Former Bundesliga coach Christoph Daum is fighting his cancer with “optimism, confidence and a touch of humor”. “We hope that we can transform the acute, inflammatory cancer condition into a chronic one that we can control with medication,” Daum told the “Express”.
He is currently receiving “very good feedback” and is therefore “confident that the therapies are working, the body is responding and the cancer cells are regressing.”
However, he cannot expect too big steps at once. “With an illness like this, it’s a matter of driving on sight,” said Daum, who turns 70 on Tuesday. Lung cancer is to be combated with extensive chemotherapy, and “breathing and meditation exercises, conscious nutrition and exercise can help,” he emphasized: “Even when my body signals that it would rather rest, I force myself to do something make.”
His daily routine included jogging, swimming, going to the sauna and training in his own fitness room. “I can at least stop the muscle loss,” said Daum. He still has two chemo appointments ahead of him, “then we’ll see.”
Daum reported that he “now has a port catheter”: “This helps to initiate the infusions. The veins are already so destroyed after over 80 needle sticks. But the medicine is not yet so advanced that I could forego the treatment in the future.”