Jean-Pierre Pernaut without taboo on his lung cancer

On November 22, 2021, Jean-Pierre Pernaut announced that he was suffering from lung cancer. These revelations have greatly moved those who, for many years, watched the journalist present the TF1 news. Guest on the RTL Midi program, he wanted to reassure listeners: “I’m in great shape, well, I exaggerate when I say that because you have to keep your morale up.“Without taboo, he spoke about this disease,” not easy “:”These are regular examinations since May in the hospital“, he launched.

The journalist also lifted the veil on the origins of this cancer which “80% comes from tobacco.“As he says, Jean-Pierre Pernaut smoked between one and two packs of cigarettes a day for 50 years. He thus sent a prevention message to RTL listeners:”My brother, who is a doctor, has told me all my life to quit smoking, as have everyone around me. The “it only happens to others”, I fell into the trap and I did not quit smoking. I say it, I was simply stupid.“And to add:”If my story can make two people quit smoking, I’m happy to talk about it.“

“We have to fight”

On November 22, Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s wife, Nathalie Marquay, came to give news of the journalist on the Touche plateau, not at my post. She then revealed that he had been operated on in July to remove the tumor. But in September, the family of Jean-Pierre Pernaut learned that the second lung was also affected. “There it is clear that we cannot go through an operation again because it is much too heavy. So he’s doing radiotherapy“, she had then said.

During his time on RTL, Jean-Pierre Pernaut had a little thought for Nathalie Marquay: “It was Nathalie who taught me not to be afraid of the word cancer.“He concluded with a message of hope for people with cancer:”It is a disease, but we are dying less and less. It is not because you have cancer that you are screwed, you have to fight and follow the advice of doctors.“