2023-10-11 09:30:00
She surprised everyone and shattered the taboos around the disease last July, by publicly displaying her breast cancer, but also her distress, her shaved head, her tears.
The influencer Caroline Receveur published this October 9 a video full of hope, revenge, tears of joy. She appears very moved, upset but also visibly proud and determined. Shaved head, in loose jeans and a white t-shirt, Caroline Receveur walks into a hospital corridor, where health and a bell, which she will eventually ring, as a symbol of this brutally fought fight.
“More than 100 days of treatments and 6 cycles of TCHP chemotherapy later, here I am crossing the first step in my long-distance running towards complete recovery”, writes the influencer in the caption of this particularly moving video. “I went through the roller coaster, I cried, I doubted, I was afraid, but little by little all this gave way to an immense wave of goodwill towards me and towards this stage which allows me today hui to realize the meaning of the word: LIVE”, she says. “I will remember these 5 months spent in suffering, certainly, but above all in love, in light and in faith. Like never before, I had confidence. In me, in my body, in my treatments, in my healing, in LIFE”, she wrote once more, saying she was particularly happy, as she had never been before.
The influencer, however, clarified that this was not the end of all treatments, since she still has “the stages of surgery, radiotherapy and immunotherapy”.
TCHP chemo and its “hard” side effects
TCHP chemotherapy is the name given to a protocol comprising four different drugs, which are taxotere (under the name Docetaxel in France), carboplatin (Paraplatin), Herceptin (Trastuzumab) and Perjeta (Pertuzumab).
Targeting cancer cells, this treatment can be administered before or following surgery, and is implemented in several cycles over 5 to 6 months.
Its side effects include hair loss, low white blood cell levels, but also a whole bunch of digestive symptoms (nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, stomach aches, diarrhea, constipation, etc.). According to the association SurvivingBreastCancer.orgthis treatment can induce significant weight loss, resulting in particular from lack of appetite and the inability to find something tasty.
Side effects which obviously did not spare Caroline Receveur, who appeared emaciated, but who also reported at the end of August that she hardly ate and was sickened by the water. We hope she gets back on track quickly now that this difficult first stage is behind her.
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