Katerina Jacob after breast cancer
The actress is confident
Katerina Jacob attended the “Blue Panther” award ceremony on October 25th in Munich in a great mood.
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Actress Katerina Jacob is confident about the future. She feels healthy a year and a half after her breast cancer diagnosis.
Actress Katerina Jacobs (65) is confident one and a half years after her breast cancer diagnosis. “I consider myself to be 100 percent healthy and all the tests say the same thing,” she said Interview with the “Bild” newspaper.
“I hope this is the end of the issue.”
At the beginning of 2022, the actress felt five lumps in her breast while showering. After surgery and chemotherapy, she was quickly back in front of the camera. Three weeks after the last radiation treatment, she returned to filming for her ARD series “Anna and Her Subtenant”. The third episode entitled “When You Dream of Love” airs this Friday (November 3rd, 8:15 p.m.). Now she said: “I have mega blood values, they are better than before.” Next week there will be another operation: the venous access through which she received chemotherapy last year will be removed: “I hope that’s the end of the matter.” She is full of energy and the next part of “Anna and Her Subtenant” will be filmed in the spring.
In her beloved Canada it is no longer so common
Even though Katerina Jacob is doing well, a lot has changed as a result of her illness. She and her husband Jochen Neumann (80) rearranged their residences. The couple used to spend a lot of time in Canada. The actress also holds Canadian citizenship. But now she emphasized: “We sold our beautiful house on the island off Vancouver because there is no medical care there. In the fall, during storms, we were sometimes stuck on the island for three or four weeks and sometimes had no electricity for a long time.” She couldn’t do that anymore. “And that’s not possible for my husband either, he’s now 80 years old. That’s why we sold the house, even though our hearts were bleeding.” The couple still owns an apartment in Vancouver: “I’m not a city person at all. Luckily we have a view of the water.” The two now spend more time in Tyrol, where they have a second home on a farm, as the “Abendzeitung Munich” reported.
She calls for an open approach to cancer
She advises other women to go for regular cancer screenings. She also wants the disease to be dealt with openly: “Women should also have the courage to go out on the street when they are bald. At some point I stopped wearing anything at all, it annoyed me. I made fun of it, wearing a wig Going local and just casually taking them off while eating. The reactions were sensational!” In Germany, cancer is “extremely taboo”. That urgently needs to change – also in the film industry. “The US stars make their illnesses official and thereby help others. But in Germany you are not allowed to be sick.” She recalls Hannelore Elsner’s (1942-2019) last filming: “I heard that my colleagues were angry because they weren’t informed. If she didn’t show up for the filming back then, it was assumed that Ms. Elsner had a special position again, She was actually dying. But her colleagues didn’t know that.”