2023-10-15 16:31:00
As part of Pink October, an afternoon conference on “How to explain the increase in cancers in France and in the world”, a round table and a debate are organized in the presence of the president of the Sainte-Catherine Institute, Professor Daniel Serin. See you this Tuesday, October 17 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the multicultural room.
Professor Daniel Serin, oncologist, chairs the Sainte-Catherine Institute in Avignon. He is invited to Bagnols, as part of Pink October, this Tuesday, October 17, for a conference, a round table with health professionals and a debate, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the multicultural room (free entry, open to all). A cake sale will be offered, for the benefit of the League Against Cancer. A reception for children is set up so that mothers can participate in this meeting.
How to explain the increase in cancers in France and around the world is the theme of this meeting.
The numbers show an increase. Particularly breast cancer. In 1990, there were 30,000 women in France suffering from breast cancer; 61,500 in 2023. An increase of 104%. Opposite, another important, reassuring figure, 11,000 died in 1990, 12,000 today. There are more and more women affected but more and more are being cured.
Why do we heal more?
Because there are national screening programs that detect small tumors, which are less aggressive and are cured more often than large tumors.
Because treatments (chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, immunotherapy) are increasingly effective. My message is simple: “Ladies who receive an invitation to screening, make an appointment!”. The percentage of women screened has decreased due to the effect of anti-screeners (52% of participants in 2010, 49% today). There are currents in society who “stalk” about screening, people who make people take mortal risks. For hesitant people, there is an opening for more personalized, tailor-made screening, set up in all cancer centers. This is “MyPeBS”, from the age of 40, for women who have risk factors. Ladies, you are lucky to be in a country where screening is available, take advantage of it, it can save lives.
How can this sharp increase be explained?
We have three factors coming together. The increase in population. There were 56 million of us in 1990, there are 68 million today. The population over 50 has increased, but overall, cancer is a disease of the second part of life. These two reasons explain half of this doubling. Then, the work of the WHO showed that this increase is linked to two phenomena: the change in our chemical environment. We do not live in the same ecosystem as our ancestors. We are experiencing environmental phenomena: what we breathe, eat and drink is not the same thing as fifty years ago. Endocrine disruptors and pesticides did not exist. We are bathed in it. There is also what our behavior has caused to vary. Alcohol consumption, a sedentary lifestyle and being overweight are phenomena which largely explain the increase in the number of cancers. We have a civic responsibility for our behavior. Physical activity, controlling your weight, stopping smoking, reducing your alcohol consumption are all ways to reduce this risk of breast cancer and cancer, by around 30%.
And the genetic factor?
Yes, it was highlighted. There are families with cancer, a predisposition gene, that’s science. Whereas pollution is new. Today, parents take their children to school by car. Children spend hours on tablets. A sedentary lifestyle is a real public health problem. The volume of our plates is no longer the same either. We’re probably eating too much. In Polynesia, the most common disease today is diabetes. A change in diet and a reduction in activity modify the diseases that affect populations.
What about emotional and psychological factors?
Hippocrates already wondered if squirrhes were linked to black humors. We don’t have the answer. There are as many elements that can show that there is a relationship as there is not. It’s under debate and it’s very interesting. There are two emblematic studies. The fate of Ashkenazi women released alive from concentration camps has been studied. There is no impact on the number of breast cancers. On the other hand, there are more lung cancers and cardiovascular diseases. Because women started smoking and drinking. The results of a study in Scandinavia are similar: one study focused on couples who had lost a child. There are no more breast cancers, and no more myocardial infarctions and lung cancers, because alcohol and tobacco consumption have increased. An increase made worse by the horrible stress of losing a child. After a death, a hard blow, there are relapses. This observation leads us to believe that during stress, our body releases hormones which could be fertilizer for cancer cells. These hypotheses are on the table but there is no major progress.
Professor Serin will also give a conference in Rochefort-du-Gard, at Castelas on Saturday October 28 at 6 p.m. (free).
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