It was more than fifteen years ago. In 2008, Michel Cymes fought against kidney cancerdiscovered after a scan following a skiing accident. Present daily on television, the famous doctor chose not to discuss his illness. It’s only October 2022, in the book Nothing is impossible, my story could be yours, published by Stock, which he agreed to testify about. Since then, Adriana Karembeu’s sidekick has been doing prevention. Thursday January 25, 2024, in the show The original bandon France Inter, Nagui asked him if he had been accompanied by a therapist. “I didn’t go to therapy. Maybe I needed it because when I had cancer, There are times you have the scar in the brain that wakes up regularly. I tried to manage it myself“he assured, before slipping: “I really believe in healing, even after cancer. I was very lucky to get through it and to have had the diagnosis in a completely crazy way and very early…”
Michel Cymes: “I took the same blow to the head as any patient”
Faced with his long-time friend, the famous doctor added: “You have a scar in your brain that wakes up regularly, but you want to live life“. On December 12, 2023, on the set of Clickon Canal+, Michel Cymes explained the reason why he had chosen not to publicize his cancer. “I continued to practice and I said to myself: ‘I don’t want each time I diagnose a patient with cancer, they say to me: ‘Ah well, you know what it is, doctor’”he indicated, before specifying: “And then, I didn’t want to be the spokesperson for all those who have cancer. I didn’t want to talk about it. My children didn’t know, my father didn’t know and I didn’t want to. I wanted to wait for the right moment to tell them, saying, ‘I’m saved.'” On March 13, 2023, at the microphone of RTL, Michel Cymes also specified: “When I was told that I had cancer, I took the same blow to the head as any patient, but afterwards, you have to get up and say to yourself: ‘I would really like to be one of the 60% recovery, and for that, you have to get tested.”.