Saturday April 13, hundreds of people gathered Place de la République in Paris to break the taboos surrounding cancer.
Organized this Saturday in the capital, the 1st edition of the Cancer Pride has been a success. Worn by the Institut Curie, the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the League Against Cancer and the CanChange association, the event opened with a citizen’s march which aroused a “strong mobilization”, according to the Regional Center for Information and Prevention of AIDS and for the Health of Young People (CRIPS).
The objective of this first Cancer Pride? Lift the taboo and inform the general public about a disease which represents the leading cause of premature death in France. “Cancer today affects everyone, from near or far. We all have a loved one, a friend or a relative who lives with it”, testifies a demonstrator at the microphone of BFMTV.
“We want to amplify the actions of all the organizations that fight against cancer and connect them within the same movement”, explain the members of the Makesense association, at the initiative of this day.
Over 380,000 cases diagnosed each year
After the citizen’s march which took place from 1 p.m. designed for cancer patients.
Cancer, not taboo, we will all overcome it! ?????????????????????????#cancerpride #together #Paris #makesense pic.twitter.com/Xc7ZAoEZXM
— Kicking Cancer (@_kickingcancer) April 13, 2019
Discussions, testimonies, information but also concerts and dance performances punctuated this event aimed at “expressing oneself together and in public around the social and societal issues of cancer, spreading advice to facilitate the daily lives of sick people, sharing without taboos its history with the disease”, as described by the Institut Curie in a press release.
In 2018, some 382,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in France and 157,000 people died from this disease, according to the latest estimates from theNational Cancer Institute.
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