Aksel Lund Svindal
Winter sports icon suffering from testicular cancer
Already operated on after being diagnosed with testicular cancer: Aksel Lund Svindal.
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Shock diagnosis from the world of sports: winter sports icon Aksel Lund Svindal has testicular cancer. The Norwegian has already had surgery.
Former ski racer and two-time Olympic champion Aksel Lund Svindal (39) has testicular cancer. That gave the Norwegian known on his Instagram account. The winter sports icon felt a change in his body himself and then went to the doctor. “The past few weeks have been different,” Svindal says in the post. After an initial suspected diagnosis, he was finally confronted with the disease in a hospital.
The multiple world champion has already been operated on. After the first week and many tests and screenings, he already knew that his prognosis was very good. However, he only owes all this to the decision to go to the doctor immediately after his first suspicion. That’s exactly why he made his fate public and talks about it. He wanted to draw attention to this disease.
Several Bundesliga stars were diagnosed with testicular cancer
There have also been several similar illnesses in the Bundesliga in recent weeks and months. Most recently, Jean-Paul Boetius (28) from Hertha BSC was diagnosed with a tumor on his testicles. Timo Baumgartl (26, Union Berlin), Marco Richter (24, also Hertha BSC) and Sébastian Haller (28, Borussia Dortmund) received the same shock diagnosis. Richter and Baumgartl are now back on the pitch.