She's one of the faces of season 19 of “L'amour est dans le pré”, currently broadcast on M6: Flavie, Valentin's suitor, recently revealed to Le Parisien that she had learned during filming , that she was suffering from a very rare form of cancer. The 21-year-old Breton woman, who has just finished her treatment, contracted cutaneous Ewing's sarcoma six months ago.
0.2% of cancers
Sarcomas are malignant tumors that “develop around connective tissues”, or soft tissues, “serving as support, packaging, protection or filling for other organs of the body”, defines the National Cancer Institute. With 5,000 new cases per year in France, they represent less than 2% of all cancers, adds the Institut Curie.
So-called Ewing sarcomas are even rarer. These osteosarcomas (which concern the bones) only affect around a hundred patients in France each year (0.2% of cancers) and, unlike other sarcomas, they are “very at risk of metastases”, describes the center Léon Bérard, a Lyon hospital specializing in cancerology.
High prevalence among children
Another particularity: Ewing's sarcoma concerns “mainly children, in particular from 5 to 9 years old in girls and from 10 to 14 years old in boys, but also adults under 30 years old”, adds the Rhone center .
Hereditary factors, viral infections or exposure to radioactive, carcinogenic (arsenic, vinyl chloride, etc.) or phytosanitary products can be the cause of this type of cancer.
Today, Flavie is on the road to recovery. In the columns of Le Parisien, she confides that she wants her story to have “a vocation of prevention”. She encourages people to consult a doctor in case of “doubts”, because “even young people, no one is safe. »
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