This Sunday March 5, 2023, the Portrait of the week in Sept à Huit was dedicated to Florent Pagny. A little over a year after announcing that he had lung cancer, the singer opened up about his fight against the disease and the treatment that allowed him to heal relatively quickly, immunotherapy.
This Tuesday, March 7, 2023, Cyril Hanouna spoke about this medical treatment live in “Touche pas à mon poste” and oncologist Ilan Darmon, invited for the occasion, tried to explain what this protocol consists of: “Immunotherapy it’s been a bit of a revolution in the world of cancer in recent years. To put it a bit schematically, in our body, each cell is recognized by our body and cancer cells can take on the appearance of body cells and therefore override our defense systems and in particular our immune system. Immunotherapy helps the body to restore its immunity and thus recognize cancer cells as being foreign to itself and thus fight them” he revealed.
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Cyril Hanouna then explained why the 61-year-old singer did not bet on this treatment from the start: “He was in Patagonia, so he couldn’t. Immunotherapy is generally administered as an infusion for 30 to 60 minutes, in a day hospital, every two to four weeks” he said before adding: “It is reputed to be effective against lung cancer, and it halves the risk of relapse”.
Florent Pagny, who had started undergoing immunotherapy treatment, had finally stopped five months ago… before regretting: “I have to go back quickly to do it. Maybe if I had been in France, I wouldn’t wouldn’t have this lymph node that appears like that, if I had followed the program. It’s a bit my fault. I was five months as a dabbler. Like a kid. There, there is something that is stronger that my freedom. Medical reality catches up with me every time. There is always something that ends up reappearing” he declared in Seven to Eight.
“We have shown its effectiveness”Florent Pagny: What is “immunotherapy”, the promising treatment for curing cancer? Oncologist Ilan Darmon answers us! #TPMPpic.twitter.com/EY7RbXFEz6
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