Last February, the host of “Double Expresso” on RTL 2 Maxime Deschaeck announced that he was ill.
“Me who plays sports, me who eats healthily, me who doesn’t drink (or at least one drink at a time), me who doesn’t smoke, I have throat cancer
,” he wrote in a Instagram post.
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He is on the set of “C à vous” this Tuesday, March 5, the day after World Papillomavirus Awareness Day.
The vaccine against this disease responsible in particular for uterine cancer has been recommended for girls since 2008, but for boys only since 2020. A lack of understanding of the risks for men that Maxime Deschaeck tries to resolve by telling his personal story this evening in the France 5 talk.
A message of prevention
“I invite everyone to get information from the treating doctors
,” declares the man who also shares with humor his visits to the hospital on his social networks.
“I was the first to be surprised that the papillomavirus could also affect boys and unfortunately I am one of the 10% who have cancer
,” continues Maxime Deschaeck before detailing:
“I have ENT cancer, the papillomavirus 'is installed on my amygdala.
Already two operations to remove a lymph node measuring almost five centimeters.
The host will then have to undergo around thirty radiotherapy sessions and three chemotherapy sessions to
“be sure to remove everything properly”.
Maxime Deschaeck prepares for the treatment as
“a sporting challenge”
, as he tells Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.
“
When you are told that you have cancer, it is terrible, like a nightmare, a bad waking dream.
There are a lot of people affected by cancer.
Both my parents had cancer.
I said to myself
“put it into perspective, you are in France, we are lucky to be treated for free”
,
says Maxime Deschaeck who hopes to be back on the air at RTL 2 in September.