2023-07-16 03:52:35
If the information does not go to the women, the association “La parole pour cureur” moves towards them. The structure went to meet the inhabitants of the Isle of Pines, on the Vao market, to talk about breast cancer. A way to promote early detection.
Karine Arroyo and Ismaël Waka-Ceou (Sophie Boltz) • Published on July 16, 2023 at 2:52 p.m., updated on July 16, 2023 at 3:07 p.m.
The lack of information on breast cancer is glaring. This is the challenge for this traveling association. “It corresponds to a lack, says Dr. Patrick Lucas, an oncologist specializing in breast cancer. There was obviously a lack of information and we thought that going as close as possible to the populations was the best way to obtain a channel of information and to transmit all the needs that we could have of communication.
After having had a precise and complete presentation on this sometimes taboo disease, most of the women retained the self-diagnosis. “As the doctor explained earlier, facing a mirror, you have to raise your arms, says Simone Faiaga Vakié who participated in this information morning. If we see anything abnormal, we must quickly consult.
Women’s cancers are not on the national education programme, whereas the section of women aged 20 to 30 is the most affected. “We talk more about liver cancer and what is related to cigarettes and alcohol, says Marie-Victoire Kanédjeu Vakié, a 13-year-old schoolgirl. We also do classes on sex.”
Among the traveling team, a former patient, Caroline Graille, remembers her fight as a duo. “I am thinking of a certain Léonie who did her first chemotherapy in the same room as me when I was doing my last, she remembers. It is not a coincidence. I went to see this lady who was terrified as I was at the time myself. We talked. She cried a little bit because it was heavy.”
And to continue: “It is for all the Léonies and the others that I feel able to say: do not be afraid, have confidence in the protocol that you follow. Have confidence in your loved one. Do it for you. , for your children. That’s what keeps us going. I think in this disease, women show immense strength to pick themselves up.”
Next destination of the association: all the municipalities that will request it as well as the customary ones.
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