At 62, Marina Carrère d’Encausse is an iconic face on French television. A doctor of general medicine with a degree in medical ultrasound and health economics, she presented Le Magazine de la santé on France 5 for 24 years. If through this show, the host did a lot of prevention,
Is she herself healthy?
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, on the set of the show Chez Jordan, on C8, Jordan de Luxe asked Marina Carrère d’Encausse if she had had any hard times health-wise. “I have had health problems like everyone else, but I am extremely vigilant. I do all the screenings that can be done, I do blood tests very regularly.I go to see the doctors seriously… I am very rigorous because I don’t play with that…”she initially indicated.
Marina Carrère d’Encausse: “I’m still afraid of having cancer”
Having suffered from asthma for a very long time, the 62-year-old presenter revealed that she visits the pulmonologist every year. “I blow every year to check how my breath is doing.I take medication every day… I really don’t do just anything. I’m vaccinated against everything you can be vaccinated against…”she said before slipping. “I do everything I can”.
Finally, Marina Carrère d’Encausse added: “I am cancer-phobic, but not hypochondriac. Just that! I am always afraid of having cancer. But otherwise, I do everything on my side to be able to stay healthy for as long as possible. Afterwards, we are not masters of everything, but in any case, I pay attention“.
Marina Carrère d’Encausse: “I find myself with cancer almost every week”
On October 27, 2020, on the set of Darius Rochebin’s Grand entretien on LCI, the program host returned to the fact that she had already assured that getting up alive every morning was a privilege. “Of course it is a privilege because it is months, days and years of life more (…) I can’t stand it when important moments are spoiled for me. “The important moments like family celebrations, planned trips, lots of things… which are such joys, such important moments in a life of survival that I hate to have them spoiled for me.”she assured.
Speaking about her fear of illness, Michel Cymes’ former sidekick said: “I’m cancer-phobic. I’m terrified of having cancer and honestly, I find myself with cancer almost every week. I have symptoms and I say to myself ‘but that’s for sure’, it’s horrible! So, for a week, I’m anxious and then As I am reasonable, I am not going to do any tests anyway. At the end of the week, as these are completely normal symptoms, they disappear and then start again. But that is the fear of dying.”.
