Overview
- Dahlmann has announced an urgent operation at the Universitätsklinik Mainz scheduled for Thursday to remove the affected right liver lobe because, he says, cancer cells are multiplying quickly.
- This is the 67‑year‑old’s fourth cancer diagnosis after colon cancer in 2005, later skin cancer, and prostate cancer in 2016.
- Doctors plan a right hepatectomy with expected postoperative intensive care and the hope that the remaining left liver lobe will regenerate and take over lost function.
- Dahlmann said he is anxious but hopeful and will be accompanied by his partner, Claudia Pöhlmann, who will be at his bedside after the operation.
- His public disclosure, made in interviews with several outlets, spotlights Lynch syndrome as the genetic cause of his repeat cancers and comes with a personal appeal for regular screening; there are no independent clinical releases beyond his statements.