Laurie Delhostal has been fighting illness for more than a year. In November 2022, the sports journalist then aged 42 announced that she was withdrawing from her professional activities after being diagnosed aggressive breast cancer, against which she has been fighting like a lioness for fourteen months. The companion of the former rugby player and current sports assistant for the 2024 Olympics at Paris town hall Pierre Rabadanwith whom she is the happy mother of a little Anne-Rose, who celebrated her 8 winters a few days agohowever, resumed its television activities at the start of the school year, landing on the morning show of France 2 Telematin, to embody a weekly sports column. She appeared all smiles, more radiant than ever, and with a ribbon on her head which revealed a few small strands of hair which were barely growing back.
The year 2024 begins under the best auspices for the forty-year-old. As she let her fans know on Instagram, the former Canal+ journalist who notably worked on the shows D+1 And Gridannounced that her breast cancer was probably behind her, and that the chemotherapy sessions were finally over: “That’s the size of my joy since this morning, because today, I had my LAST injection in the chemo departmentI will switch to regular check-ups and medications every day, but it’s over. Goodbye little crab of misfortune“ rejoiced the columnist of Thomas Sotto and Marie Portolano.
1 in 5 breast cancers treated recurs after 10 years
And to qualify his remarks, however, by recalling that the risks of recurrence of breast cancer nevertheless remain significant and that monitoring is required: “We remain humble in the face of illness and recurrence, but we celebrate, damn it!” According to the French Curie Institute, breast cancer affects more than 60,000 women in France each year,t 15 to 20% of these treated cancers recur after ten years. Let’s bet that Laurie Delhostal gets as far away from these statistics as possible, and let’s wish her all the happiness in the world, far from the airwaves and hospitals!