the attraction of the president of the League towards most cancers earlier than the municipal elections | EUROtoday

Dhe progress in medication with the guarantees of innovation, the speeches on World Cancer Day – February 4 – are actually properly rehearsed. So a lot in order that these on this version are, partly, identified upfront: will probably be a possibility to be proud that, to any extent further, six out of ten cancers are treatable, twelve instances greater than 100 years in the past. Advances in therapies will serve, as soon as once more, to help a conclusion that binds nobody: “We have to go further. » This is indeed the way forward for the cancers that we know better and that we can hope to treat as long as research support follows.

But if France really wants to go further in the fight against the disease, we should still look at where it never goes. Not towards cancer which can be treated, but towards that which can be avoided: that is to say almost 40% of the cases that we diagnose every year. Yes, each of these approximately 170,000 new cancers, out of the 430,000 diagnosed in 2023, according to the National Cancer Institute, is indeed a collective responsibility. Because individual choices are always made in a given and imposed environment.

Such assurance can be out of place in a society where the first instinct is to look to each person’s responsibility. But what do we do the rest of the time, except repeat great injunctions like “stop smoking”, “play sports”, “eat organic” who solely achieve making people really feel responsible and widening the variations in life expectancy between probably the most precarious and probably the most well-off? Today we want fewer phrases and extra actions.

There is a concern that this second half of the battle will likely be rigorously silenced by officers and political decision-makers on February 4. We have all the things to do about prevention and but we have now nothing to say. Because to speak about it will be to take the danger of exposing the State to its inertia. Or fairly its short-term imaginative and prescient: healing earlier than preventative, whereas the well being of tomorrow is considered right this moment.

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