Against the risk of cancer, this resident of Yvelines had her breast and ovaries removed

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“Me, it’s Garance, this morning I’m getting ready to have my two healthy breasts removed preventively. » Laurie Técher, resident of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche (Yvelines), slipped into the skin of a fictitious alter ego to tell a story which is intimate to him.

A spotlight on the predispositions to disease and the courageous way in which she twisted the neck of fate. His first book, My life without cancerprefaced by Professor Laurent Lantieri, has been available since February 4, 2024 on the Amazon platform.

At the age of 37, this mother of three children discovered that she carried a genetic mutation, a favorable breeding ground for breast and ovarian cancer. To no longer live with this sword of Damocles hanging over her head, she made the choice of preventive surgery.

Increased hereditary risk

At the end of 2019, while his mother, who died while writing the work, was fighting against a stubborn cancer and relapses, the doctors prescribe examinations to check that there is no hereditary risk.

Three months later, the verdict fell, cruelly. As two women out of a thousandthe Yvelinoise, who after the terrible news put her professional career on hold, also carries a mutation in the BRCA2 gene. This participates “in the repair of the lesions that DNA regularly undergoes”. “The presence of mutations disrupts this function and greatly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancer,” explains the National Cancer Institute on its website.

“Moment of astonishment”

“I learned it abruptly, but it is what it is. It was a moment of astonishment,” confides, seriously, the mother, now aged 42 ans. After the time to step back and reflect, comes the time to make a decision.

“I accompanied my mother for fourteen years through her illness. If in 2007 she had had access to this screening, she perhaps would not have died. »

Determined to defy destiny and statistics, unshakeable in the face of the sometimes clumsy comments from those around her, not even a year later here she is on the surgical tableto undergo the first of his five operations.

We made him a double mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction and ovarian removal. This drastically reduced the likelihood of her contracting breast or ovarian cancer. “Zero risk does not exist, but today, it is minimal,” underlines this sparkling woman.

Inform to choose

It was during her long weeks of hospitalization that she took up her pen to recount her journey through Garance. A autobiographical story in the form of a novel, tinged with humor, a way for her to “detach” herself emotionally from the story. This book, with an educational vocation, “does not tell women what to do, it provides information on how to choose”.

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