Cancer is a scourge: in addition to being a fatal disease, it can stick to the skin of many patients who do.
Patients cured of cancer often discriminated against
Indeed, when taking out a loan or insurance, people cured of cancer must indicate that they have one day been affected by the disease.
A statement that can pose a problem: some companies refuse contracts and others display sometimes very high additional costs.
Thanks to the establishment of a right to be forgotten for former cancer patients, people who have been affected will no longer have to mention their former disease to obtain a loan or negotiate their insurance conditions.
Right to be forgotten: five years of waiting for childhood cancers
This right to be forgotten primarily concerns people who have contracted Cancer during childhood.
Patients who suffered from the disease before the age of fifteen “will not have to declare their disease five years after the end of the therapeutic protocol”, indicates the convention.
Right to be forgotten: fifteen years to be respected for other cancers
For other people, the time limit to be respected in order not to be forced to mention the disease will be fifteen years after stopping treatment.
However, this period may be shorter for certain cancers. A reference grid will be regularly updated according to therapeutic progress.
Other pathologies concerned by the right to be forgotten
The right to be forgotten should soon be extended to other chronic pathologies.
“It can only be acceptable that HIV positive person or suffering from hepatitis, pathologies requiring daily and long-term treatment, be the victim of discrimination, even though progress in treatments to combat these diseases now makes it possible to benefit from an almost normal life expectancy “, underline the deputies authors of amendment.
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