Overview
- Dahlmann, 67, posted from Universitätsmedizin Mainz asking for no unannounced visits or flowers and asking that any contact be coordinated with his partner Claudia Pöhlmann.
- He told reporters the liver cancer requires swift action because cancer cells are proliferating quickly, and he said he feels both fear and guarded optimism about the operation.
- Multiple outlets, citing Bild, reported the surgery was planned for Thursday and described it as urgent and high risk.
- Surgeons intend to remove the affected right liver lobe and hope the remaining left lobe will regrow; doctors expect Dahlmann to spend several days in intensive care after the procedure.
- This is Dahlmann’s fourth cancer diagnosis and is linked in reports to hereditary Lynch syndrome, a genetic condition that raises cancer risk and underlies his repeated calls for regular screening.