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The singer Florent Pagny has been fighting lung cancer for a few months. After several courses of chemotherapy for which he suffered some side effects, the singer gives his news.
It was January 25. In a video posted on his Instagram account, Florent Pagny announced to his subscribers that he had inoperable lung cancer. It is of course the same principle that he is once again addressing his fans. “I can tell you that I am doing very well. I changed my look a bit but it’s the treatment that wants that. I’ll get used to it and it’ll pass”. Florent Pagny therefore gives his news and wants to be reassuring for those who love him, who will undoubtedly notice the physical change of their idol.
Loss of hair, eyebrows and beard
Indeed, in this short video posted on his Instagram account, it is a bald Florent Pagny, without eyebrows and without a beard who appears, consequences of the chemotherapy cycles he has just followed. Honestly, The Voice coach explained that “the protocol worked rather well since (…) my tumor as big as a kiwi turned into a hazelnut“. The specialists who follow the singer have therefore decided “to send heavy with radiotherapy and more intensive chemo” he adds. Florent Pagny concludes by adding that they have “very confidence”. For him, “It went very well because I was very well accompanied medically, and by my other half and my children”.
Known side effects
Asked about the subject, the medical director of Doctissimo and emergency physician Gérald Kierzek explains that this type of side effect is well known following chemotherapy treatments. “Hair loss from the eyebrows and beard is a classic consequence of the treatments that Florent Pagny follows. The positive point is that he evokes a clear regression in the size of his tumor, it is that the treatment gives a good therapeutic response” adds the doctor. “When he finishes his treatment, and he resumes his concerts, we can say that he will be in remission.”.
Another chemotherapy session
Moreover, “Florent Pagny mentions a course of chemotherapy remaining, the rest of his treatment will therefore be discussed by the specialists who follow him in a multidisciplinary consultation meeting. adds Dr. Kierzek. These meetings are held regularly between doctors from different specialties to determine the course of action to be taken in the treatment of cancer.
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The hope of immunotherapy
“It may be surgery, radiotherapy sessions or immunotherapy treatment, which gives good results. further specifies Gérald Kierzek. These therapies continue to evolve and provide improved survival in this pathology.
Indeed, on April 11, an international study published in the New England Journal of Medicine announced the discovery of a new treatment against lung cancer combining immunotherapy and chemotherapy before surgery, which would reduce the risk of recurrence and death by nearly 40%.