Fight against cancer: Rhône MP Marie-Charlotte Garin calls for the creation of a national registry
In a column co-signed by more than 90 researchers, elected officials, patients and activists, Rhône MP Marie-Charlotte Garin calls for the creation of a national cancer registry.
Each year in France, 157,000 people die from cancer, making this disease the leading cause of premature death. In an opinion piece published on May 6 , doctors, researchers, patients, activists, and elected officials, including Rhône MP Marie-Charlotte Garin, called for the creation of a national cancer registry to better prevent the disease.
As they explain, "only 24% of French people are covered by a cancer registry. No data for Île-de-France, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Nice. No monitoring in the most polluted and most populated areas." While the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts "+77% of new cases by 2050," the signatories ask: "How can we act if we don't even know where and why cancers are exploding?" And assert: "Without data, there is no prevention."
In France, #cancer kills 157,000 people each year. It's the leading cause of premature death. And yet... there's no national registry to record all cases. The result: we're moving forward blindly.
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