Bernard Tapie does not intend to let it go. As he just turned 78, the businessman with double esophageal and stomach cancer continues to struggle to live as long as possible. Guest on the set of 8:30 p.m. on Sunday on January 31, 2021, the businessman confided in Laurent Delahousse on his fight "so as not to die". After embarking on experimental protocols to cope with his illness, he gave news of his health. "I'm waiting, we're looking … Treatments that were effective have been proven. I had lost 75% of my tumors and within two months they had doubled with metastases. I'm waiting, we're looking … ", he began.
Asked about his strength and energy in the face of illness, the former Adidas owner said: "The head, it helps, but the truth is it's an inside fight. Between who and who? Tumors that are hostile to you, but your own, not a virus, and your immune system. How does it work ? Energy! If the energy you have is stronger than the energy in your tumor, you are going to win. And to have energy, there is a way: to exercise!" Bernard Tapie then addressed those who, like him, fight against the disease: "What cancer patients need to know is that there are an incredible number of small labs working on the new molecules. And in eight days of time, they can find it. We do a sample from everyone, not just Tapie, and we look at the composition of your cancer. "
Bernard Tapie confides in death
Before continuing: "In fact, we find thatthere are not three types of cancer, there are sixty million cancers. By analyzing tumors, we find out exactly how this tumor is made up. And immediately, you look around the world to see what test is going to kill tumors. But we haven't found him yet … ". Former OM president also insisted on equality "total" before the disease: "I will tell you: if there is one thing in France, in general, and on health in particular, is that you can never convince a great teacher to give you something if he can't get it for your neighbor who is nobody. They have that ethic! And it's only in France that you have that! " As for death, he said he was not afraid of it : "Me, I am totally in the line of an existence. Not of life and death. Of an existence which exists under certain parameters at first with stages and then, afterwards, your soul is always located."
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