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Installed for years at Favières, in Eure-et-Loir, the Brosset family has been fighting for several years for Aline, the youngest of 4 years. A true warrior, in the face of illness.
A few months after her birth, Aline suffered four months of chemotherapy, a double protocol to fight leukemia. Then, a period of “reprieve”, in the words of Ludovic, his father, while waiting for a transplant.
“The siblings were not compatible, we had a one in a million chance of having a donor,” recalls this courageous dad. What is a miracle happens, Aline is transplanted and begins a long phase of remission.
The girl relapsed twice
In the middle of summer 2019, a few months after returning home, the “beast” returns to the little girl’s body. Followed at the Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, Aline is testing a gene therapy, Car-T-Cells: a technology that uses the patient’s own genetically modified immune cells to destroy tumor cells.
This treatment considerably reduces any side effects that Aline could have with chemotherapy. It is a really innovative protocol that does not cause hair loss for example.
Car-T-Cells: a new treatment
The cost of this experimental treatment amounts to € 135,000. But life leaves no rest for this warrior, the Car-T-Cells escape from the girl’s body, her father popularizes: “a bit like a gendarme who is there to hunt thieves, but as soon as he leaves, the thieves find another gateway”.
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One year after the relapse, new alerts were sent and life did not spare the Brosset family. Aline is ill again and resumes chemotherapy.
My daughter has survived a second relapse.
Running to raise funds
His parents now want to “activate all possible levers” to advance research on pediatric cancers and experimental treatments. More than € 60,000 in donations have already been collected, “ideally, there are two million to go and get”.
Each person who wishes support Aline, but also all other children with the disease can participate by buying a bib and covering two to ten kilometers, via the ProTiming application.
We should not be afraid to break taboos and talk about cancer. Aline is full of life, she is an exceptional child who carries a strong message. This fight deserves to be fought.
Ludovic wants to organize solidarity races throughout France, as he did recently in Favières.
