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“My baby’s smile is my best medicine”: when cancer is diagnosed before age 40

2024-03-29T05:25:30.765Z

Highlights: Anne-Cécile, 39, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2023 and under chemotherapy since January. Like her, more and more women, including young people under 50, are victims every year. “My baby’s smile is my best medicine”: when cancer is diagnosed before age 40, says Anne-Cecelie, a mother of two from Lourdes, France. ‘The eldest, very thoughtful, asked me if it would grow back,’ she says.


More and more young adults are being diagnosed with cancer. This is the case of Anne-Cécile, 39 years old, who felt “a mass that


Anne-Cécile remembers with a smile the reactions of her older children when they learned that she was going to lose her hair. “The eldest, very thoughtful, asked me if it would grow back. The second one asked me to wear a hat when I went to pick him up from school! But ten minutes later, they had moved on to something else,” says the 39-year-old young mother, diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2023 and under chemotherapy since January. Like her, more and more women, including young people under 50, are victims every year.

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