Overview
- Germany’s national team goalkeeper says she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2017 and again in 2022, recounting both episodes in the book.
- She quotes her doctor telling her she had thyroid cancer and estimating her chance of cure at 71 percent.
- Berger describes a roughly five-and-a-half-hour operation that left a prominent neck scar, which she later covered with a tattoo.
- A psychologist was present during the consultation, and Berger writes that she coped by accepting the illness rather than treating it as a fight.
- BILD publishes exclusive passages as the 240-page, 20-euro book, “Das Spiel meines Lebens,” is slated for release by riva-Verlag on Tuesday.