What if city medicine and hospital came together to improve cancer prevention?

This is the idea behind the Interception research program, launched by the Gustave Roussy Institute.

Guest of "Sans Rendez-vous" on Europe 1, the oncologist and director of the project, Suzette Delaloge, details how it works.  

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It is a research program which has set itself the objective of "revolutionizing cancer prevention in France".

Called Interception, it should make it possible to "develop all the tools to identify cancer early before the clinical phase", details at the microphone of Europe 1 Dr. Suzette Delaloge, oncologist at the Institut Gustave Roussy, in Val-de-Marne .

To do this, Interception wants to identify "people at increased risk" of cancer thanks to the cooperation of city medicine and the hospital, explains the one who is at the head of the program launched by her establishment.

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Concretely, once a general practitioner considers that a patient is at risk, he contacts the Interception program and a meeting is organized with the latter in the form of a day of discussions.

"We want to increase people's knowledge [in this area], their awareness of symptoms, but also to determine with them the best prevention or screening program", specifies the oncologist.

Interception thus intends in particular to reduce the number of the most frequent cancers (breast, lung, colon), "the three major current scourges" of mortality in France.

"The idea is to reduce in the long term 30% of serious cancers. That is to say those which have a high mortality rate, which lead to sequelae or whose treatments have sequelae."  

Only supported for the moment by the Gustave Roussy Institute, the Interception program could, if it proves to be effective, be implemented on a larger scale in the territory.

In any case, this is what Suzette Delaloge hopes.

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40% of cancers could be prevented

On February 4, on World Cancer Day, Emmanuel Macron presented his strategy against cancer for the next ten years.

A plan in which prevention plays an important role.

Today, 40% of cancers could be avoided, especially those due to tobacco and alcohol, recalled the head of state.

With 1,000 new cases diagnosed every day in France, cancer is the leading cause of death in men and the second in women.