Prof. Emmanuel Barranger, Managing Director of Antoine Lacassagne Regional Cancer Center in Nice speaks on France Bleu Azur and France 3 Côte d’Azur to sound the alarm:”.only half of the women concerned by organized screening between the ages of 50 and 74 are screened in France. We are far from the 75% of certain European countries. And in PACA: we are at 33%, which is even lower. It would be necessary to arrive as in Portugal at 70% participation.
we are trying to find out why there is so little screening
“We have to work on the reasons for giving up. When we question the women, they answer us:” I don’t have time, I’m fine and I’m in good health, I have another illness that comes first… we have to figure out how to get them to get tested.”
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. It accounts for more than a third of all new cases of cancer in women.
According to the latest 2022 data from the National Cancer Institute ” the number of cases observed each year has tended to decrease since 2005, even if this disease remains the leading cause of cancer death in women in 2018. If detected at an early stage, 5-year survival is 99%.”