The reminder is always good to do, even far from Pink October. While 60,000 cases are discovered each year, the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago during a routine examination, and to follow today today hormone therapy. She calls on women to get tested more often.
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“Today, I am doing well”, writes on X Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly since June 2022, relaying an extract from an interview published by the media Mesdames on Friday. “I am under hormonal therapy and I am followed regularly by a team of caregivers who throughout this process have been tremendously committed and dedicated,” she explains.
-“In 2022, in the series of New Year’s resolutions, I said to myself: ‘come on, I’m going now’. I made an appointment for a mammogram… and it was on this occasion that my cancer was detected,” she says, speaking of a “bolt of thunder in (her) life”.
While breast cancer is “the leading cause of cancer mortality among women”, “nearly one in two women do not undergo the screening to which they are entitled every two years”, underlines the Renaissance MP for Yvelines. of Ladies. “All women must do this screening,” she insists.
