an easier disease to cure?

In France, 4 million people are affected by cancer today. These diseases are often difficult for doctors to cure, but advances in technology and medicine have given hope in the treatment of cancer in recent years. Host of the show Well done for youProfessor Fabrice Barlesi, Director General of the Gustave Roussy Institute in Villejuif, speaks on the subject and discusses these improvements.

“60% of diagnosed patients recover”

For this professor, for 40 years, two important things have changed: diagnosis and therapeutic progress. “For 40 years there has been the advent of new chemotherapies. But it is above all the advent of targeted therapies, thanks to molecular knowledge and precision medicine, but also of immunotherapy”, underlines in the microphone of Julia Vignali and Mélanie Gomez . “And all this progress has not only benefited the later stages of the disease, but is gradually benefiting the early stages, where we will be treating more people.”

Today, 60% of patients diagnosed with cancer are cured. Fabrice Barlesi also states that “for the vast majority of others, progress benefits and allows a so-called more normal life”.

For the professor, lung cancer specialist, the Prevention plays a vital role in the treatment of these diseases. “Today 40% of cancers are preventable and our knowledge, our ability to better prevent risks is greater than in the past”, she specifies. Who says prevention, says screening. If this topic comes up often, too few people submit to it. “It is fundamental, it is still a 20 to 30% reduction in mortality for each of the detectable tumors”, insists Fabrice Barlesi.