Prevention, sequelae, survival… What strategies against cancer by 2030?

Published on 12/28/2022 at 11:26

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Preventable cancers, 5-year sequelae, screening objectives, survival rate: let’s take stock of the data published on the occasion of the First Monitoring Committee of the Ten-Year Strategy for the Fight Against Cancer 2021-2030.

Each year in France, 382,000 patients learn that they are suffering from cancer: ie 1,000 new cases per day.

Initiated in February 2021, the ten-year strategy for the fight against cancer 2021-2030 aims to reduce the burden of this disease. Nearly two years after its launch, the latter well deserved a progress report. What are the announced objectives?

Reduce the number of preventable cancers by 60,000 cases per yearby 2040. Namely “that today, almost half of cancers each year could be prevented“, relays the National Cancer Institute (INCa), in particular by acting on the risk factors linked to the hygiene of life. To date, 41 tumors (pulmonary, colorectal, hepatic, etc.) are estimated to be avoidable. protect yourself as much as possible? For example, by reducing your consumption of alcohol, tobacco, processed foods rich in fast sugars and bad fats. But also by practicing regular physical activity and limiting your exposure to substances as much as possible. pollutants found in the air;
Carry out a million screenings more by 2025: today, approximately 9 million screenings are carried out each year among colorectal, mammary, uterine and skin tumors against which a screening course is accessible to patients at risk;
Reduce from two-thirds to one-third the proportion of patients suffering from sequelae. Five years after their diagnosis, 63.5% of patients suffer from sleep disorders, fatigue and chronic pain, depressive symptoms, or libido, motor and/or visual disorders;
Improve the survival rate of cancers with a worse prognosis, and this in a significant way, for 2030. The cancers concerned? Mesothelioma of the pleura, acute myeloid leukemia but also tumors of the pancreas, esophagus, liver, lung, gallbladder and bile ducts, central nervous system and stomach. The most pejorative prognoses are mainly linked to cancers triggered by tobacco and alcohol consumption. Note that in 2016, “seven cancer sites had a 5-year survival rate of less than 33%“, continues the INCa;
Inject 1.74 billion euros of financing over the period 2021 – 2025i.e. +20% compared to the 3rd cancer plan 2014-2019.

To achieve these objectives, here are the 4 main areas included in the Ten-Year Strategy for the fight against cancer: