Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and nearly 1 in 9 woman will be affected during her lifetime1. Yet, only 50% of women get breast cancer screening2?
So it is very important to maintain efforts and keep raising awareness, to inform, communicate, and promote early detection.
Strongly committed to this cause, we wanted to give a voice to strong women, each one of them committed in her own way in this fight against cancer: "cancer survivor" and resilient patients, health professionals and patient associations.
For that, we went to meet:
-Séverine, patient with breast cancer and founder of Degom'Crab association in France
-Audrey Allain, Clinical Psychologist and Head of the Department of Psychology at the Rafaël Institute, in France
-Vanessa, patient with genetic breast cancer and member of Geneticancer association in France
-Laura, patient with metastatic breast cancer in England
-Victoria, Deputy Chair for Europa Donna UK, the Breast Cancer Coalition in England
so that they could share their stories and explain the importance of early detection and support in this ordeal.
In this exclusive interview, Vanessa, Audrey Allain, Séverine, Laura and Victoria highlight the importance of raising awareness and militating for early detection of breast cancer.
"It is really thanks to self-examination that I could spot that lump in my breast and that I am still alive today.”
Don't hesitate to get tested because screening should not be considered as a risk to detect breast cancer but as a chance to heal.
It's really important to raise awareness of metastatic breast cancer because when I was diagnosed it was a very lonely place.
It is really important to raise awareness and understanding of genetic cancer. Because not knowing is a real danger.