A skiing accident allowed him to be saved. Indeed, without this incident, Michel Cymes might never have discovered he had cancer. By starting too late, he might never have been able to cure him either. But ultimately, doctors did indeed succeed in detecting kidney cancer in 2008, which he hid for a long time.
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gave the reasons for his silence regarding his illness. According to him, the fact that he continued to examine patients would have forced him not to mention it. “I said to myself: ‘I don’t want every time I diagnose a patient with cancer, they say to me: ‘Ah well, you know what it is, doctor’”he confided to Mouloud Achour.
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Michel Cymes and his “after-effects” after his cancer
Moreover, Michel Cymes nor did he wish to become a spokesperson for “all those who have cancer”. The doctor revealed that his own children were not informed until his recovery: “I wanted to wait for the right moment to tell them, saying, ‘I am saved.’”. Now cured, he recognizes that certain after-effects can be felt today.
Indeed, guest of The original band from Nagui this Thursday January 25, 2024, Michel Cymes told the host that he had never followed therapy although he was not against it when he was suffering from his cancer. “Because when I had cancer, there are times, you have the scar in the brain that wakes up regularly. I tried to manage it myself”he admitted on France Inter before adding: “I really believe in healing, even after cancer. I was extremely lucky to get through it and to have had the diagnosis in a completely crazy way and very early… You have a scar in your brain that wakes up regularly, but you want to live life.”.
Michel Cymes constantly reminds us that there is a 60% total cure for cancer in France and that we must give ourselves the means to be part of this percentage, by being screened as early as possible.
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