Tahiti, February 13, 2023 – Doctor Lucille Chauveau is hosting this Wednesday at the CHPF amphitheater a conference in medical anthropology on the theme of breast cancer and more generally women’s health in Polynesia.
On the sidelines of Ludovia, the University of French Polynesia is organising, this Wednesday, February 15 at 5:30 p.m., a conference on breast cancer and women’s health in the amphitheater of the Taaone Hospital Center. A meeting open to all. Doctor Lucille Chauveau will present the results of the study she has just carried out at the request of the League against Cancer and with the financial assistance of the Maison des sciences de l’Homme du Pacifique. The research carried out lasted a year and a half. Three archipelagos (Société, Tuamotu and Australe) were investigated with the objective of understanding the “practical and material brakes” but also “cultural and psychological” that impede care. This study shows that the “cure rate” of this disease in case of late detection, on patients who have had the tumor for five years or more, is only “5 to 6 women out of 10 while it is 9 out of 10 in mainland France”. It’s a “a major public health issue”, underlines the UPF which organizes the event. The conference plans to present proposals for “optimize treatment and improve preventive medicine messages” and will offer reflections on appropriate behaviors in the face of illness.