Ovarian and endometrial cancer affects 12,000 new women each year. To support them, the IMAGYN association has set up a traveling caravan. In Montpellier, she joined forces with the Medical Institute against Cancer.
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In the parking lot of the Montpellier Cancer Institute, Monique Boudet finds a real cocoon. Suffering from ovarian cancer for 5 years, she discovered IMAGYN. Through this association, she was able to escape the isolation linked to her illness. “Many people do not dare to talk about it, are embarrassed because it is an intimate part of themselves.”
The association also organizes workshops, cafés and more festive events. The patient was able to participate in a concert 4 years ago, an initiative which was beneficial to her.
“Little by little we got to know each other. Now, I see other people who have the same illness as me. We dare to talk about it and we feel good,” smiles Monique Boudet, patient of the IMAGYN association.
In addition to meeting other patients, the association follows these women in their daily lives. They will cover several topics to make their lives easier. “Feeling yourself moving, feeling your body functioning independently of the fact that it mobilizes the muscles, it feels good psychologically and you feel in control of your body and an actor in your illness,” add Coralie Marjollet, national president of IMAGYN.
In Montpellier, IMAGYN has joined forces with the cancer medical institute. Patients can benefit from both the medical expertise and additional services of the ICM. “We can think of nutrition, adapted physical activity, oncosexology, psycho-oncology, that is to say the psychological impact of cancer in the life of a patient but also for loved ones, all the social assistance that exists”, add Stanislas Quesada, medical oncologist at the ICM.
In France, no woman has ever officially been cured of ovarian or endometrial cancer. But research is progressing rapidly, and patients are entering their 7th year of remission. Hopeful news.
Written with Thomas Cardoze.
