After a long absence of the media due to cancer as rare as it is violent, the journalist confided in his difficult course and his consequences.
The disease, which regularly strikes television figures, is no longer hidden now. From Jean-Pierre Pernaut to Henri Sannier, the testimonies are increasing to raise awareness, hunting shame and secret, and learning to live with illness. One had played the card of transparency before his death in March 2022. The other recently confided in very rare autoimmune disease which strikes him in a book “The day I reappected to walk “(Editions du Rocher).
Another famous figure figure of the PAF, which announced in December 2021 being suffering from cancer, returned to the front of the stage in February, thanks to World Cancer Day. This disease had forced him to move away from TV platforms and radio studios for long months to undergo heavy treatment. Today in remission, the 71 -year -old journalist returned to this media test. And he wanted to make his personal case a testimony of prevention. “As soon as you have something bizarre that lasts, you have to consult. This is the basic principle,” he said.
Invited on the European set of Europe 1, Guillaume Durand, visibly changed, detailed his journey strewn with pitfalls. Starting with the diagnostic error he was the victim. “I was with the dentist. I had a to the teeth. My dentist told me to go to Biarritz to surf and take a doliprane. In fact, I had jaw cancer and he had Nothing seen, “he said. Several false tracks will follow, an operation, then a heavy treatment, which left him sequelae.
Invited on the sets like those of C to you on France 5 and C media, but also the author of a book “Band apart” (Plon) last year, Guillaume Durand has always or almost without detour this cancer that He compared to a “personal nuclear attack”. “What I took in my head was a personal nuclear attack. I was grafted a piece of leg instead of the jaw … Imagine the reversal in a life!”, He also had Entrusted in 2022 in an interview with Paris Match.
“I fell very sick when I had no sign, no addiction, nothing […]never smoked, no drugs, “said Guillaume Durand, amazed to have been touched by illness despite his healthy lifestyle. He thinks that it is his frantic work pace, with morning radio starters at 5:00 For 25 years or 35 years, which ended up weakening his body.
The journalist also testified to significant weight loss, going from 90 to 75 kilos. Despite the remission, the consequences are always present on a daily basis, especially persistent pains as he also entrusted to Europe 1 recently: “I am in pain”. He refuses too powerful painkillers. “I was a little younger sporting and even now and I refuse morphine, all these things, it is not for me. The Doliprane remains the drug,” he said.