A terrible diagnosis has just fallen. On Friday September 16, 2022, the former Minister of the Interior Gerard Collomb announced that he would spend the next few months fighting the disease like a lion. “Last Monday I learned that I had a stomach cancerhe explained on his Twitter account. I am going to fight against the disease with the same energy that I had put at the service of Lyon, of our Metropolis when I exercised the functions of Mayor and President.“
It’s all the more infuriating that I had just returned from vacation in great shape!
Gérard Collomb, who joined the ministry under Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, told his health journey to the regional information site Lyon People. He remembered that he had experienced “difficulty swallowing“for three weeks. He had finally decided to consult his doctor since, in addition to this first symptom, he was suffering from heartburn”intense and regular“. This is how we discovered him a particular cancer”sly“. “It’s all the more infuriating that I had just returned from vacation in great shape!”, he regrets.