Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. However, research into treatments continues to progress. Chemo, radiotherapy, immunotherapy: find in our selection some treatments for this disease.
Presentation of "Neptune", the ultra-sophisticated radiotherapy device used at the Tenon hospital in Paris for the treatment of cancer. Professor Alain Laugier, director of the tumour centre at Tenon Hospital, recounts the history of radiation therapy, explaining that this method began in 1896.
A new approach to cancer treatment. Some patients are experimenting with alternative treatments that are already yielding encouraging results. Isabelle, who has an inoperable and highly disabling brain tumour, was treated through metabolic treatment. It was his doctor, Dr.Robert Le Texier, who proposed this simple, non-toxic treatment, the metabolic treatment of cancer. The latter explains how these dietary supplements work, which aim to reduce the entry of sugar into the cell and improve sugar metabolism in the cells.
Jocelyne Blanquet, 46, testifies to her six years of illness. She had breast cancer. Filmed in her house at the foot of the Cévennes, she tells her story. Now in remission, she feels the fight was worth it. She admits that if she had to start chemotherapy again, she would. "Always try, it’s worth trying".
Professor Léon Schwartzenberg explains what chemotherapy is and recalls that it is currently the therapy that has made the most progress in the treatment of cancer.
Two years ago, Jean Anjubault was found to have kidney cancer that spread with bone metastases and many affected lymph nodes. "I thought it was the end for me," he admits. The specialists who follow him propose to test a new drug of a new family, that of targeted treatments that allow to asphyxiate the tumor. John is now cured. Olivier RIXE, a cancer specialist at the CHU de la Pitié-Salpêtrière talks about the results of this new cancer treatment.
The first gene therapy experiment has just been launched in parallel in France and the United States for patients with advanced cancer. Olivier Rixe, head of clinic at Pitié Salpêtrière, explains what this therapy consists of, namely the introduction of a suicide gene into cancer cells and which causes the programmed death of these cells. He stresses that this new therapy will still require many hours of work. Testimony of a patient who will benefit from this treatment and who confesses not to be at all terrified.
Presentation of a center specialized in cancer screening at the hospital of Villejuif, offering different therapeutic treatments (radium, cyclotherapy, surgery, the colbalt bomb).
Cancer treatment: Immunotherapy is a promising new technique. Explanations on synthetic images and interviews with Dr David PLANCHARD, oncologist, in his office.