This Tuesday, December 12, Michel Cymes was a guest on the show Click, broadcast on Canal+. The famous 66-year-old doctor and TV host spoke about the release, last November, of his new book entitled A year 2024 in great shape, but not only. In complete privacy, Marina Carrère d’Encausse’s former set friend spoke about the kidney cancer he fought, and that he had revealed in his previous workbaptized Nothing is impossible and published in 2022.
“When I saw the catastrophic screening figures in France… There are less than 40% of people who will have colon, prostate and uterine screenings”, he lamented, indicating : “I wanted to tell them that if today I was still here to write this book and talk to them, it is because medicine had saved my life and that I had been detected on time.” Asked by Mouloud Achour on his choice not to publicly discuss his cancer when he fought it, Michel Cymes explained that he did not want his patients to know about his own health concerns, but also that he did not “I don’t want to be the spokesperson for those who have cancer.”
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A screening carried out following an accident
And if he chose to remain silent on this sensitive subject, it was in particular because neither his children [il est le père de trois enfants nés en 1997, en 1999 et en 2011, NDLR] nor his father were in the know when he was battling illness. “I wanted to wait for the right moment to tell them, saying: ‘There, I am saved, today it’s over, it’s behind me,’ but I didn’t want them to find out through press”, detailed Michel Cymes. As a reminder, his cancer occurred in 2008. On March 18, during his invitation to the RTL microphone, the doctor said he had been detected “by chance, after a skiing accident”. Despite everything, he wanted to inform listeners that “chance and luck can be provoked today” by doing regular tests to check your health.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias
Photo credits: Canal+ screen capture