DECRYPTION – Their usefulness is no longer disputed, but the level of income or the place of residence are sometimes a brake.
Thanks to advances in medicine, more and more people are surviving their cancer. Logically, this also makes more individuals who live having experienced this disease – they would be 3.8 million in France, according to an estimate by the National Cancer Institute in 2022. However, according to a study the League against cancer published on Tuesday, 84% of these patients feel at least one physical or psychological consequence related to cancer or its treatments. For them, support care (physiotherapy, psychology, adapted sports activity, nutrition, etc.) at the peak of the disease, during or after their convalescence is essential. Avoid potentially disabling sequelae, reduce the risk of recurrence: “It is not a question of comfort but of an absolute necessity, and these supportive treatments no longer have to prove their usefulness. It’s an investment for the future.”insists Lucie Vialard Arbarotti, project manager at the societal observatory of…
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