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A Life for Living - Louis Denis
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Video on 5 cancer survivors (different types of cancer, MS etc.) telling their story on how they survived cancer, what difficulties they had to face during treatment and how the disease changed their life. This video was produced for the launch event of the conference: Partnership against cancer and the objective was to create emotion and intrigue the audience to act in the fight against cancer.
Twenty years ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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It was tough.
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My case is quite common.
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I had a very high PSA of 26 and a positive rectal ultrasonography.
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The risk of cancer was very clear.
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During the surgery, they couldn't confirm this, so it took another five years of biopsy.
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I've had several biopsies over the last 20 years which have proved that indeed I have
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cancer but that I don't need treatment.
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You know it takes 15 years to die from prostate cancer.
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After 15 years, I was very careful and my colleagues convinced me to have radiotherapy.
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Personally, I still think it was the wrong decision.
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I had to endure the side effects of radiotherapy.
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Of course, the doctor feels he has to heal you and he believes that all cancers need
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to be destroyed.
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Another thing we know is that there's an over-diagnosis level of about 30%, so we find
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cancers that don't need treatment but they still get over-treatment in 30% of cases.
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That's a major issue, over-diagnosis and over-treatment.
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A diagnosis of cancer is never nice.
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For most people, it means they're going to die.
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That's the big problem, the lack of knowledge.
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What you imagine is always worse than the reality.
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The patient has these ideas about what's going to happen to him.
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But when he's well-informed, he knows he can live a normal life.
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Here in the oncological center, there are eight patient groups.
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We want to help those people on every level by improving their knowledge, through good
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communication and by supporting them with their problems.
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All I know is that I, like the other three million men in Europe, will probably not die
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of prostate cancer, but that I'll feel the effects of it when I'm older.
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At a certain stage, you say, it's like my age, my rheumatism, my hair loss, my feet.
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You continue your life, but you don't want to spend it in the urologist's or the doctor's office.
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Our only wish is, first treat the person, then fight the cancer.
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- Niveles educativos:
- ▼ Mostrar / ocultar niveles
- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- The European Union
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 726
- Fecha:
- 17 de febrero de 2010 - 13:44
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 04′
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.76:1
- Resolución:
- 480x272 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 14.86 MBytes
