In a message posted on X this Friday, Yaël Braun-Pivet, originally from Nancy, encourages all women to make a good resolution this year: to go get tested.
Because as she confides, that’s how she discovered she was suffering from breast cancer. “ In 2022, in the series of New Year’s resolutions, I said to myself: “aCome on, I’m going now“I made an appointment for a mammogram…and that’s when my cancer was detected.”
« CIt was a bolt from the blue in my life,” continues the politician, fourth person in the State. “No one is prepared to have cancer. As for the 60,000 women diagnosed each yearI lived with the uncertainty of the diagnosis, the anxiety of the operation, the wait for the analysis results, the daily life of the treatments. »
The member of the presidential party Ensemble pour la République also spoke about it in the online show Ladiespresented by former Canal + journalist Maïtena Biraben. An extract was broadcast this Friday, January 10.
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The one who has been President of the National Assembly since 2022 declares today that she is doing better: “I am on hormone therapy and I am monitored regularly by a team of caregivers. »
Yaël Braun-Pivet admits, however, that she let things drag on a little before getting tested: “CLike many people, I have sometimes left the envelopes from the national screening campaign or my doctor’s prescription lying around on the living room table. »
If she speaks today to tell her personal story, it is to emphasize the importance of screening: “Women absolutely must become aware of it. »
