With around 2,500 children affected by cancer each year, the Golden September operation aims to raise awareness of their existence.
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The Eiffel Tower will sparkle specially on Saturday, September 21 at 8:30 p.m. to highlight the Golden September operation, supported by the main anti-cancer centers. Although childhood and adolescent cancers are rare, they continue to kill around 450 children and adolescents each year.
Around 2,500 children and adolescents report cancer each year, mainly blood cancers, leukemia and brain tumors. The September in Gold operation aims to raise awareness among the French, explains Professor Jean-Hugues Dalle, head of the hematoimmunology department at the Robert Debré children’s hospital in Paris.
“In the collective imagination, we cannot imagine, we cannot conceive that a child could have cancer. However, unfortunately, it exists and we must raise awareness of their existence.”
Professor Jean-Hugues Dalleto franceinfo
Today, 80% of children and adolescents are cured of their cancer. To help further advance research, the organizers of Septembre en Or invite the French to come Saturday evening to the forecourt of the Trocadéro in Paris, at 8:30 p.m., the time when the Eiffel Tower will sparkle specially in the presence of judokas, and recently crowned Olympic champions, Shirine Boukli and Romane Dicko.