2023-11-26 18:59:38
By Soline Roy
Published 1 minute ago, Updated 1 minute ago
“Cancer and care pathway. The Odyssey of the Sick”, Michel Bolla, L’Harmattan. The Harmattan
DECRYPTION – Dr Michel Bolla patiently explains the different stages of the care pathway and their reasons for being.
Every day in mainland France, there are nearly 1,200 of them; 700 men and 500 women who are undertaking a grueling journey of which they do not know the outcome: they have just been diagnosed with cancer. And no one will leave this odyssey as they entered it…
Former professor of oncology-radiotherapy at Grenoble-Alpes University, Dr. Michel Bolla spent forty years with these unwilling travelers. And he drew a conviction from it: as Solzhenitsyn writes in The Cancer Pavilionthe patient, “like this lucid warrior, he will only be able to fight if he understands the goals of his fight”. However, we actually say very little about cancer. Of course, the media talk more often than not about the tremendous advances in research, its extraordinary therapeutic progress, its thousand virtues of prevention. But what does the patient’s journey say in his cold reality, from the first symptom to remission?
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