Published30. March 2024, 1:27 p.m.
Hockey: Törmänen is better, but will no longer coach full time
The general condition of the former HC Bienne coach, affected again by cancer since the spring of 2023, has improved significantly after harsh chemotherapy, we learned on the Yle Sport website (“Le Sport” ).
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The Finn, on the bench during the last play-off final.
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First there was this terrible diagnosis, in the summer of 2020: gallbladder cancer. But after six months of intensive chemotherapy, Antti Törmänen saw the end of the tunnel and was announced to be in remission. And then again last spring, while his HC Bienne was in full preparation for the play-offs which were going to end in the final. A tumor was discovered during a routine check-up and the nightmare began again for the former hockey pro, now 53 years old.
“The playoffs started the same day this diagnosis was confirmed. At the beginning, this was hidden from the players, but I immediately informed the club management, explains today, on the website of the Finnish media, the one who gave in guts and guts when he had to take the road to the CHUV of Lausanne . First I heard that the x-rays looked good and two days later the cancer actually came back according to the tumor markers… It was like a hit with a baseball bat to the back of my head. head.”
The adopted Biel resident is still in Switzerland, where he has great confidence in the region’s hospitals. He lives in Zealand, with his wife who works and his two children who are already grown up. “The new chemotherapy started last April and continued for about seven months. On the basis of PET imaging (editor’s note: medical imaging method practiced by specialists in nuclear medicine which makes it possible to measure in three dimensions a metabolic or molecular activity of an organ thanks to the emissions produced by the positrons coming from a radioactive product injected beforehand, according to Wikipedia), the situation is good. But tumor markers in the blood are still high,” explains the Finn.
Antti Törmänen was able to start the sport again. He skis, tennis, walks and goes to a boxing gym. But despite his progress and the end of his cancer treatments, the bronze medalist at the Nagano Games in 1998 does not see himself returning behind a band one day. “I will probably receive cancer treatment once every four weeks, called immunotherapy, and for a very long time,” he asks. It is very likely that I will no longer be a head coach.”
2024-03-30 14:13:29
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