Michel Cymes was the guest of France Inter this Monday, October 3. The doctor spoke about the cancer he had to face a few years ago and in particular his reaction when he learned of it.
Michel Cymes is a doctor who needs no introduction. He has been on viewers’ screens for several years and gives them advice on a daily basis. On October 5, the emblematic doctor will unveil his work entitled Nothing is impossible. In it, he recounts the important moments of his life and in particular the tumor he had to deal with fourteen years ago. Guest of France Inter this Monday, October 3, Michel Cymes made some confidences and he remembered his overwhelming reaction when the doctor made this announcement to him. “I experienced what all patients who are diagnosed with cancer experience. This phase of astonishment at the time of the announcement“, he first explained before adding: “That moment when you break down in tears in front of the doctor“. He then specifies that he was diagnosed, by chance, following a skiing accident. A disease which had a very significant impact on his daily life but also in his profession. “I lived that, and in ENT, we announce a lot of cancers. JI had a booster shot with each announcement. And I felt… Empathy, you got it when you’ve been there“, he continued, very touched. A period of his life that Michel Cymes has never forgotten and if he wishes to speak about it today, it is to remind the importance of going to be tested . “I wanted to do a favor for everyone who is not going to get tested because I have been incredibly lucky in my life“, he assured before adding: “I was screened for my tumor when it was not talked about, it was 3 and a half centimeters and at 4 centimeters, we have metastases.
His cancer, Michel Cymes wishes to speak about it publicly in order to convey a very important message. “If tumors are found when they are small, your life can be saved“, he said. In the columns of Current Woman on October 2, these are similar comments that he made: “I thought that telling what had happened to me could be useful to others. A way to give back a little of everything I was given“, he continued. Regarding his cancer, he said he discovered it “by pure chance. One of my sons tricked me into doing ski stunts, and I broke a rib“, he remembered before specifying: “As I was having a CT scan to check that the spleen was not bleeding, I asked the doctor to also take a look at my kidneys, just like that, for no reason… That’s where we discovered a cancerous tumor.” A simple appointment which allowed him to be treated afterwards and, today, Michel Cymes declares to do all the necessary examinations. “I do colonoscopies, PSA (Editor’s note: one of the markers of prostate cancer), everything that is offered to me!“he specifies before adding: “By telling what happened to me, what I did and how I got out of it, I have the conviction that I can help, even a little. Because I am lucky that the French have confidence in me in matters of health“.
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The story of Michel Cymes echoes that of Daniel Lévi. Both are public figures who have chosen to talk about their health problems in order to convey important messages. It was in 2019 that he had revealed to have colon cancer. Two years later, while participating in the show Naked stars on TF1, he had recounted his fight, in order to encourage viewers to be tested at the first signs. “After an experience like mine, we realize that we are passing through“, he first explained, before adding: “It is perhaps on the order of overestimation of oneself to say to oneself that It’s been 10 times that I have received the mail from the Health Insurance… I don’t have time, it only concerns others“. A mistake he had felt to be.”extremely serious. You do the test, you check that you don’t have it. You take the test, you have a problem, we can treat you enough in time“, he had concluded, determined to be heard.
Tiffany Iacomacci