According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 80% of breast cancers develop after the age of 50. In 2019, Carla Bruni led this fight in the shadows. If she had not wanted to talk about it at that time, it was on Instagram that the 56-year-old artist confided on Wednesday October 4, 2023: “I was lucky: my cancer was not yet aggressive. Why was this cancer not aggressive? It’s because it didn’t have time to become so…”. In fact, every year, Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife has a mammogram. “If I hadn’t done this […]I would no longer have a left breast today”, she said. Friday March 15, 2024, in the podcast Come on, I dare!the former First Lady revealed that she was still taking hormone therapy. “It is an oncological treatment which is generally done for hormone-dependent cancers. It is not preventative, it is an active drug that shrinks tumors, makes cancer cells disappear.“she explained, before specifying that she would have to follow him for “five or seven years”.
Carla Bruni: “My hair was falling out…”
If she got used to taking “a pill every day”the singer had difficulty getting used to this treatment. “I took it harshly the first two years, it gave me painit made me gain weight, my hair fell out…”she listed before letting go: “There are better times to spend!”. Speaking to Elsa Wolinski, Carla Bruni said that the story of a loved one had made her change her mind about the situation. “One day a friend of mine told me that his mother had had a relapse of the same disease as me and that it was not operable because she was very old. So they had just given her the hormone therapy, and after six months of treatment, his one-centimeter tumor had disappeared“, she said. During this podcast, the former model also indicated that hormone therapy had had an impact on her sleep. Fatigue and a lack of energy may indeed appear during this treatment.