Martin Hagen, parliamentary group leader of the FDP in the state parliament, is sick again with cancer.
According to information from Münchner Merkur, a malignant tumor was removed from the 39-year-old on Wednesday.
Martin Hagen is currently recovering from
cancer surgery
in hospital.
He already has a long history of cancer.
Some time ago, the FDP parliamentary group leader attracted attention across Bavaria with the topic of
artificial insemination.
Munich -
Martin Hagen
had imagined
completely different on
Wednesday
.
"I actually wanted to read Markus Söder the riot act in the state parliament," he says.
The FDP parliamentary group leader has apparently not lost his sense of humor.
Instead of in the
state parliament
on Söder's
government declaration
to answer, Hagen had to undergo an operation.
A malignant tumor was removed.
Still, the
operation went
well and the
prognosis was
positive.
Although the 39-year-old is one of the younger MPs in the
Maximilianeum
, he already has a long history of cancer.
He was in his late twenties when he first
felt
a
tumor
in his abdomen.
Hagen, actually an
athlete
and long-term optimist, discovered at the time that the fight against the disease with surgery and chemotherapy demanded everything from him, especially since there were one or two
setbacks
.
But he won it.
Six months later, he ran the
Berlin Marathon
- his very own triumph.
“It's a decisive experience, even if it hasn't made me a different person,” he said later about his illness.
"Every debate that we do NOT have here in Parliament costs transparency and acceptance," says the President of the State Parliament @IlseAigner.
She is right!
#Parliament participation
- Martin Hagen (@realMartinHagen) October 21, 2020
Martin Hagen (FDP) fights cancer: tumor discovered by accident
Now
cancer is
back.
On Thursday of last week, the two-time had
a family man
with acute symptoms to the doctor - while the tumor was discovered, although that had nothing to do with the complaints.
The next
routine examination
would not have been due until November.
In this respect, the politician was lucky that the problem was recognized earlier.
He is currently doing well, says the parliamentary group leader.
He is still recovering in the
hospital
.
His parliamentary group and President of the Landtag,
Ilse Aigner
, had informed Hagen, who grew up in the Rosenheim district and now lives in Baldham (Ebersberg district), about the disease on Tuesday afternoon.
Instead of Hagen, party friend Wolfgang Heubisch replied to Söder's government statement - observers were surprised, but an explanation for Hagen's
absence
was only given a day later.
Martin Hagen has already made headlines with another topic: artificial insemination
A year ago the Hagen family made
headlines
nationwide
: In order to force his fight for better state support for
artificial insemination
, Hagen revealed that his two children were also conceived this way.
When he first developed cancer, a doctor had warned him of the danger of becoming sterile from chemotherapy.
He advised him to cryopreserve semen as a precaution.
This advice later turned out to be gold.
After a long doctor odyssey, the couple finally had
two children
.
The fact that a politician deals so openly with this taboo topic brought him a lot of attention beyond Bavaria.