Actress Valérie Benguigui died of breast cancer. Uncommon in young women, this type of cancer is more aggressive but is cured better.
French actress Valérie Benguigui died at the age of 47 from breast cancer. Revealed in The truth if I lie, and the movie Lawyers and partners, the actress was recently awarded the César 2013 for Best Actress for her performance in the First name. Asked about Europe 1, his partner in the film and friend Patrick Bruel confided his immense sadness. “She fought so hard. She’s been fighting this filth for three years and now she’s gone to the end of what she can do. “And the singer adds,” we learned of his illness during the filming of The First Name. She had done two remissions and then recently it has totally deteriorated ”. Unfortunately, this is a very frequent occurrence in these young patients hit hard by this terrible disease.
Breast cancer that affects young women tends to be more aggressive, tall. grade and more advanced at the time of diagnostic. In addition, although it is generally very well cured in this age group, these young women know an increased risk of recurrence, compared to older women.
However, with an average age at diagnosis of 61, breast cancer in under 40s remains uncommon (7% of cases).
Regarding its mortality, we note that even if the number of new cases is increasing (53,000 new cases estimated in 2011), breast cancer kills less and less and has significant cure rates. And this in all age groups, but especially among young and middle-aged women, underlines the National Cancer Institute. Moreover, 9% of deaths from breast cancer concern women under the age of 50.
The only exception to this positive development, 85-year-old women whose death rate has steadily increased since 1983-87. And this mortality changes with age. A finding that has also been confirmed in an international study published in April. Based on these results, mortality from hormone-dependent breast cancer (or RH +) increases with age and increases particularly after 75 years.
Breast cancer is still the leading cause of death from cancer in women, with approximately 11,500 deaths estimated in 2011. Next come colon-rectal cancer (8,300 deaths) and lung cancer (8,100 deaths).
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