Tim Lobinger clings to the hope offered by the new treatment with both hands.
Tim Lobinger successfully represented Germany in numerous championships. EPA / AOP
Multi-time medalist in the pole vault Tim Lobingerin the cancer has come back.
Among other things, Lobinger, 49, who won the 2003 World Championships in the Hall, was told in 2017 that he had rare aggressive leukemia. The treatments were effective, and a couple of years later doctors declared she had overthrown her cancer.
– I felt good. My blood counts were monitored every four weeks, but otherwise I was healthy, Lobinger says in an interview with Bunte magazine.
However, the man’s well-being deteriorated last year. At the medical examination, the cause became clear.
The cancer recurred, even more violently.
In an interview, the emotional Lobinger says she is in cancer treatment and fighting for her life. The treatments are painful and involve huge risks.
– There are metastases everywhere, even in the spine. Every radiation treatment raises the risk of paralysis, the interview is revealed by an ex-athlete who has just been irradiated and lost strength.
Lobinger is receiving a new type of cancer treatment. He clings to the hope it offers.
– I got my first diagnosis five years ago. That’s when I was told that at best, I have three to five years of life left. Now, thanks to science, I’m here. I’m looking to live a couple more years, and future treatments will definitely help me. Even if the probability of recovery is one percent, I will stick to it. I am a fighter, I fight for my family and friends.
Bringing the family up in an interview understandably brings the emotions to the surface.
– My youngest son will start school this year. My daughter is getting married in the summer. It feels awful to think I’ll probably not live that long.
Lobinger won silver in 1998 and 2006 and bronze in 2002 at the European Championships in Athletics.