TELEX FRONT PAGE: CANCER-DEFLECTOR PODCAST_"At 21, I managed to get through both chemo and the electrical engineering faculty of the Technical University at the same time"_ [18.07.2023]

"As a cancer survivor, Bertalan Thuróczy became a biomedical engineer – so partly an electrical engineer, partly a doctor. For years he has been working with tremendous energy on developing a smart glove that is unique in the world, which he first tried out on himself to treat his own Raynaud's syndrome. This circulatory disorder can be a side effect of chemotherapy, and if left untreated, can even lead to the loss of fingers. Thuróczy is a cheerful, creative sportsman, a notable half-marathon runner for BEAC, and he is currently working on his second book, titled Super Sapiens. His first book, Run, Believe, Live, is mostly the shocking yet uplifting story of his illness and recovery, and of his brother's death."

_It's like a folk tale. An unknown peasant lad from Rákóczifalva sets off to conquer the capital, to cut off every head of the seven-headed dragon standing in his way. The first head is the entrance exam to the technical university, where he got straight into the electrical engineering faculty – a truly tough match against young men with more privileged backgrounds. The dragon's next head is the lightning-strike diagnosis of cancer. This knocked him back for a while; he needed all his strength just to somehow process the terrible news with a clear mind._

_Then our hero, rising from the ruins, planned with engineering precision how to cut off the dragon's remaining heads. Testicular cancer is said to be the 'best kind' – the tumor most easily cured by surgery. Considering how easily accessible the location is, this is easy to understand. Yet having his right testicle removed was an enormous emotional blow for a young man who longed for love and a family._

_As also becomes clear from his recently published autobiographical book, his gallows humor never failed him. When his hair started falling out heavily, he went to the barber to have his head shaved bald. The barber first suspected he'd lost a bet, to which Thuróczy replied: "Yes, I made a bet with Death, and he won."_

_He turned his hospital room into a study room, and could get so absorbed in the material that he often forgot where he was. He would get permission to leave the hospital for exams, fighting nausea and often weakened, but he almost always passed. There was even an occasion when, the day after a surgery, when he should still have been lying in bed, he left the hospital with a fresh wound, at his own responsibility, and went to take his university exam."_

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