Despite advances in research, cancer affects approximately 2,200 children each year (from 0 to 17 years old) and it is responsible for nearly 500 deaths, the leading cause of death by disease in children over the age of one. This disease, which is scary, is even more frightening when it concerns children. We now manage to cure 80% of these cancers, with increasingly suitable treatments, but there is still progress to be made. However, to fight against pediatric cancers, prevention is essential, as well as the means devoted to research.
” Golden September inspired by the “Gold in September” born in the United States in 2012, seeks to highlight the specificity of childhood and adolescent cancers in order to raise awarness and raise funds for advance research.
Geraldine Mayr and the Dr Jimmy Mohamed receive the Dr Dominique Valteau-Couanet, oncopediatrician at the Gustave-Roussy Institute in Villejuif in the Val-de-Marne, which is both a care and research center. It presents the cancers that most affect children, the treatments they benefit from and the hopes placed in research. She also tells us the daily life of these children and their parentsbetween joy, worry and pain.
Medical news and questions from listeners
Dr Jimmy Mohamed speaks today about the vaccination against covid-19the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in children and adolescents on their fertility and the fact that Kylian Mbappé objects to his image being associated with the promotion of products that are bad for your health.
He responds to Roger, who lives near Avignon, who wonders if drink a lot of teamore than four cups a day, represents a risk to his health, and to Luc, 68, who lives in Montluçon and who is worried about lose weight as you age.