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Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the National Assembly, recounted her fight for three years against an illness affecting approximately one in eight women. Despite the pain that is gnawing at her, the political representative continues to play her role, essential for our institutions. She is currently undergoing hormone therapy which is controlling her illness.
Yaël Braun-Pivet under treatment: the politician talks about the ordeal she is going through and which affects 60,000 women per year
In three years, she has become one of the most important figures in French political life. Elected to the perch in 2022reappointed in his functions, . However, the one who has just celebrated her 54th birthday is very discreet about her private life. The media barely know the name of her husband, Vianney Pivet, an executive at L’Oréal.
However, this January 10, the politician cracked the armor for one of the first times, during an interview for the media Ladies. The former Socialist Party activist revealed that she had been engaged in a fight against the disease for three years. A struggle which did not prevent her from continuing her political rise.
Yaël Braun-Pivet fights against breast cancer
The President of the National Assembly is suffering, a disease affecting nearly one in eight women in France. “Like more than 60,000 women each year, I was diagnosed with breast cancer just 3 years ago. As with them, it was a bolt from the blue in my life. No one is prepared for cancer. Like them, I lived with the uncertainty of the diagnosis, the anxiety of the operation, the wait for the analysis results, the daily life of the treatments”she wrote on X.
Renaissance figure explains she discovered she was suffering from this cancer as part of a simple screening. A medical procedure, offered free of charge and recommended every two years for women aged 50 to 74, which saved her life. Thanks to this early discovery, the treatment has made it possible to considerably limit the progression of the disease, even if it is not said. Not stepping out of her political role, the native of Nancy sends advice to her followers: “So, if you need to make a good resolution at the start of the year, I can only recommend that you go get tested. Breast cancer, colon cancer, cervical cancer…: don’t wait any longer!”she says.
Hormone therapy treats Yaël Braun-Pivet
The short-lived Minister of Overseas, particularly invested in the fight (she was notably seen wearing the pink ribbon in the Assembly), is today being treated with hormone therapy. This medical processwhich allows it to continue to fully ensure its political mission.
“Today I am fine. I am under hormonal therapy and I am followed regularly by a team of caregivers who throughout this process have been tremendously committed and dedicated”she added in her tweet.
In 2013, another politician, Dominique Bertinottiminister responsible for the family, also chose to speak out to explain that she was leading the same fight against breast cancer.
