Our colleague and friend, a journalist at franceinfo, died at the age of 31 on Saturday December 23 after a year and a half of fighting the disease. This prize fund should help finance research against this rare cancer.
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The family of Clémentine Vergnaud, a franceinfo journalist who died on December 23, 2023 from bile duct cancer at the age of 31, launched a fundraiser for research against the disease that killed her. It is a rare cancer, which affects two people in 100,000, generally older men.
On Tuesday, the prize pool exceeded the 15,000 euros mark, making it possible to launch the creation of an endowment fund which will bear the name of Clémentine Vergnaud. It will help finance associations or charitable organizations. Members of Clémentine’s family and many colleagues and friends of Radio France made a donation, but the generosity went well beyond those close to her, proof of the emotion her disappearance aroused.
Hello everyone, a fundraiser has just been created on Leetchi for research against cholangiocarcinoma cancer as wished by Clementine who left us on December 23.
Feel free to broadcast. https://t.co/6K9KRjnKU7— Clémentine Vergnaud (@Clem_Vd) December 31, 2023
Clémentine Vergnaud had made public, in a podcast published in the summer of 2023, his life facing the illness. In this podcast, she wanted to discuss her doubts, her hopes, and leave a testimony that she hoped would be useful for all those who, like her, find themselves battling the disease. “I want to leave a mark”she told us, so that her time among us was not just a parenthesis in our lives.
