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France, the touching farewell of oncologist Alex Kahn: “I don’t fear death but I know she will win”

A modern story made up of media interviews but also social messages. Alex Kahn, for the role he had in France he can be compared to our great Sandro Veronesi. Kahn is a well-known face also to viewers for his great communication and dissemination capacity, a member of the Bioethics Committee, he was also very active during the first period of the pandemic, to denounce the delays of the government and to warn about the dangers of Covid-19.


Cancer symptoms during the pandemic – Precisely in conjunction with the first wave of the pandemic in France, the first signs of evil, as Kahn tells in one of the interviews released in recent days: “the cancer certainly began around March-April 2020, when it was diagnosed, the August 4, 2020, it was already very extensive. Despite this, the treatment was very effective, I had a good chance of survival at 20-25 months. I therefore decided to continue my action in the League Against Cancer, I had many things to do for taking care of the sick in this time of epidemic, mobilizing committees, participating in debates. But last April I suddenly got worse with a second, very aggressive form of cancer. It progressed rapidly, with no chance of recovery or remission. I have the idea, as a joke, that cancer has considered me as a particularly formidable enemy and has decided to take it directly with me “.

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Every day the story of evil – Kahn talks about his illness almost every day on the media and on social networks, because one of his battles has always been against the difficulty of speaking, of naming cancer and death: “The League’s action also consists in fighting against This. Year after year, we strike this enemy, we fight him. And he retreats and will retreat more and more as we call him by name. “

I hope to remain calm until the end As for his farewell, “I’ve never been obsessed with death,” he says Alex Kahn – is a very special companion. Like so many, I hoped to be calm and stoic but I can’t be sure it will. But I’m not afraid of death, I challenge it with the same irony even though I know it will win. What makes me happy is to have been able, in this last period, to do what matters most to me: my duty and transmission to the beings I love. I had a happy life – he repeats – I can say, in the end, that it is not serious that I die, because I lived well “.

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