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Traudl Bauer heads a breast cancer self-help group

2021-11-28T07:12:17.939Z


Raisting / Weilheim - Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Those affected meet regularly in Weilheim to share their own individual experiences. Traudl Bauer started the self-help group eight years ago and continues to lead it today.


Raisting / Weilheim - Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women.

Those affected meet regularly in Weilheim to share their own individual experiences.

Traudl Bauer started the self-help group eight years ago and continues to lead it today.

When Bauer felt a lump in her chest 13 years ago, she suspected something bad.

She went to the doctor and was proved right: she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

The native Austrian was actually in the middle of life, was happy with her husband and son, and worked as a management assistant in a company. But suddenly she felt helpless and alone. “I had everything done to me,” the 65-year-old remembers today. She trusted the doctors, but there was no real grappling with the disease. “I just didn't know what to do.” It looked good at first. But then the shock: eight years after the first tumor, the cancer broke out again. The breast was amputated. “It was the only way to save my life,” Bauer assumed this way for himself.


At this point, she not only wanted to talk to doctors about her illness, but also to exchange ideas with other affected women. But there was no self-help group in Weilheim and the surrounding area at the time. Without further ado, she became active herself. She used flyers to advertise her idea in many places. The first meeting: sobering. Only one other woman came - and she was late. “I thought I was going to stay alone,” Bauer recalls. But gradually more and more women joined. There were 21 active at the last meeting before Corona. Due to the massive restrictions, the pandemic has reduced the group to currently ten members.


“The disease is complex and multi-layered, and not all breast cancer is the same,” says the early retiree. That is why the self-help group joined the mamazone association three years ago, which always provides the latest scientific findings. “It would be best if women join us as soon as they are diagnosed,” she encourages. Because sick people often only come when the treatment has long since come to an end. However, the exchange of experiences is important from the start. Whether tips on treatment options, nutrition, sports options or simply “to get rid of your greatest worries”: Everyone who is affected by breast cancer is invited. Because men can get it too.

Bauer believes that it is important not to let cancer dominate you.

She supports others and has also found ways for herself.

She is the initiator of the Raistinger Sonnenacker, gives voluntary tutoring, enjoys going into the mountains and does a lot of sports with her husband.

Since the pandemic, she has been playing a kind of Monday painter online with her family members across Europe every week and talking to them on the phone at the same time in order to maintain contact.

“It is important to me that I pursue goals,” emphasizes the early retiree.

"The beautiful things should be in the foreground."

Information on the topic

The self-help group mamazone eV always meets on the last Wednesday of the month from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Höck-Haus, Pöltnerstraße 22, in Weilheim.

Whether the next meeting can take place will be decided based on the current Corona situation.

For more information, please contact Traudl Bauer at bauer@mamazone.de or Tel. 0160/7942375.


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Source: merkur

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