three years ago, Yaël Braun-Pivet was diagnosed with breast cancer

The President of the National Assembly announced this Friday, January 10, that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. “Just three years ago,” admits Yaël Braun-Pivet.

In an interview for Ladiesshe declares: “I had breast cancer which was detected as part of a traditional screening which allowed me to catch it early and to be able to have surgery, radiotherapy and monitoring afterwards”. MP Renaissance claims to now be “cured”.

“No one is prepared to have cancer”

« […]it was a bolt from the blue in my life. No one is prepared to have cancer,” she says on X. Like 60,000 women each year, she has lived “with diagnostic uncertaintythe anxiety of the operation, the wait for the analysis results, the daily life of the treatments.”

Yaël Braun-Pivet returns to the importance of screening. “Breast cancer, colon cancer, cervical cancer…: don’t wait any longer! “, she insists on X.

The 54-year-old says she is “doing well” and is now on hormone therapy. Hormone therapy consists of preventing the stimulating action of female hormones on cancer cells.

The most common cancer

In France, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women, according to the National Cancer Institute. During her lifetime, one in eight women could develop breast cancer during her lifetime, according to Health Insurance.

However, if detected early, cancer can be cured nine times out of ten. Latest figure: 80% of breast cancers develop after the age of 50. Screening is recommended every two years in women aged 50 to 74, without symptoms or personal and family history. This is a mammography100% covered by Health Insurance.

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