France: at 13, he recovered from a cancer deemed incurable by specialists

2024-03-17 13:47:04

It was in a medical center in the Paris region that a young Belgian followed an innovative and promising treatment which allowed him to be cured at the age of 13 of a cancer which is nevertheless considered incurable, reports the Ouest website. -France. Thanks to the doctors at the Gustave Roussy cancer center in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), he has, so to speak, thwarted all the predictions which unfortunately only predicted a fatal outcome in the medium term.

“His tumor has completely disappeared. We consider him cured!” It was Doctor Jacques Grill who announced the good news. A great victory in the face of a rare cancer, which affects several dozen children and adolescents each year, again according to the same source.

The diagnosis was made at the age of 6 for Lucas, who lives with his parents and his sister on the outskirts of Brussels, in Belgium. The family then had to fight with this sentence which gives no more than nine to twelve months of life to a child who suffers from infiltrating glioma of the brain stem. The survival rate is very low, around 5%. This time, it was the disease that lost!

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