the socialist mayor, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, announces that he has cancer

The mayor of Rouen and first deputy secretary of the PS, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, announced on Wednesday that he had been suffering from bladder cancer since 2022, specifying that he would “Alright”. “I was diagnosed, at the beginning of 2022, with my first cancerous bladder tumor”declared the city councilor during a press conference. “I wanted to inform you of this for transparency.” After an operation in 2022, then another in 2023, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol underwent a third intervention in June 2024. He specified that his cancer was not very advanced, without metastases, but “high grade, meaning the cells are very aggressive”explaining the recurrences.

The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, welcomed the “courageous fight” of Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, whom he regularly confronts on the line that the party must take. “Cancer should no longer be a taboo. Thank you for the example and the hope.” The disease has, according to Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, “increased its commitment”to break the “taboo” of cancer in the professional world. “Did the illness lead me to give up? Or to work less? Or to commit less? Or to be less present? Not only, no, but it’s even the opposite”he said. “Beyond (s)personal situation”he emphasizes his “willingness to act so that these issues are better understood”.

“No genetic origin”

Consequently, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol announced a «plan d’action» in the city of Rouen and the Metropolis for “fight against the isolation of people during their illness”, “facilitate the return to employment” et “develop a caring, aware and welcoming professional ecosystem”. “We want to talk about all this in a simpler, more fluid way, without taboos. We are going to create discussion groups, as they say, reflection groups. We are going to invite personalities”detailed the mayor.

According to the mayor of Rouen, his cancer “is not of genetic origin”emphasizing the “environmental origins” of this disease, that is to say in connection with “air quality, food quality, water quality”. “Just a number. The cancer that I have, there are 5 times more in Seine-Maritime than in France, on a national average. “I am fighting to improve the quality of life in our city”he assured.