Covid-19: "In 2020, 100,000 cancers were not diagnosed", regrets Axel Kahn

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Georges-François Leclerc Cancer Center in Dijon, France.

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By: Clémentine Pawlotsky

8 min

On the occasion of the world day against cancer, Emmanuel Macron announced this Thursday, presenting the ten-year strategy against the disease, wanting to strengthen prevention against tobacco and excess alcohol, even targeting a future "generation without tobacco ”, in order to reduce the number of deaths from 150,000 to 100,000 per year.

Axel Kahn, geneticist and president of the National Cancer League, reacts to the French president's announcements and sounds the alarm about the Covid-19 health crisis, which has led to a drop in cancer detection. 

  • French politics

  • Cancer

  • Health and medicine

  • Economy

  • Coronavirus

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