The head of the TVA Nouvelles at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., Sophie Thibault, who was due to have surgery on Monday to treat her skin cancer, will be replaced by two of her colleagues over the next few weeks.
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The 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. news bulletin will be led by Raymond Filion this week and by Julie Marcoux the following week.
According to information obtained by the QMI Agency, if all goes well, Ms. Thibault should return to the air in two or three weeks.
The one who succeeded Pierre Bruneau last September has already undergone cream chemotherapy treatments and several surgeries in recent months to treat her skin cancer. However, an “area resists the onslaught of the scalpel, a more devious infiltrating squamous form,” she wrote in a lengthy Facebook post last weekend.
“So now we have to take another step and consider Mohs surgery, a specialized technique that involves removing a tumor in small layers, analyzing it on the spot, until there is no more cancer. On Monday, I will be in the expert hands of a formidable Maisonneuve-Rosemont team. There will be plastic reconstruction afterwards. Then I’ll have to wait for it to heal, under the bandage, away from the makeup.”
The 61-year-old journalist added: “This traitor of the sun has left its mark on my face, forehead and nose: actinic keratoses which have recently become basal cell carcinomas, which are much more worrying. The word we don’t want to hear: skin cancer!
Many Quebecers and Sophie Thibault’s colleagues have sent their kind words to her since the announcement of her illness.