The Czech striker Karel Gott is suffering from acute leukemia. That said the in July 80 years old singer of the newspaper "Blesk".
"I did not want to bother you with my problems," he wrote to his fans on Facebook. He was looked after by a top team of the Prague University Hospital and treated on an outpatient basis. He drives regularly to the hospital for examination. The checks would monitor his overall health.
To avoid speculation, he decided to reveal his health status, he continued. The singer appealed to tabloid media to respect the privacy of his family. "I am glad that I can be at home with my family."
He is still working on an autobiography
Acute myeloid leukemia develops very fast and requires fast, intensive therapy. According to DKMS, which is dedicated to the fight against blood cancer, this consists of intensive chemotherapy, followed by maintenance therapy and possibly a stem cell transplantation. Older patients therefore have worse chances of survival than young patients.
The Czech hit star was already suffering from cancer in 2015: at that time doctors had discovered during a stomach operation a so-called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of lymphoma cancer '. God overcame the illness at that time according to own data three years ago.
Karel Gott is still active as a musician, only a few months ago he had recorded a new duet with his daughter Charlotte Ella. The song is titled "Srdce nehasnou" - in German "Hearts do not go out".
With his wife Ivana, the musician has two young daughters, both of whom are artistically active. Charlotte Ella, the older of the two, sings from an early age. At the age of seven she took her first musical role in Prague in the musical "Mata Hari".
Born in Plzen in the Czech Republic, he is well-known as the singer of hits like "Bee Maja", "Lady Carneval" and "Babicka", and has been on stage for more than 60 years. He has been estimated to have sold more than 30 million records during his career. He is currently working on an autobiography to be published in the spring of next year.
