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The announcement of breast cancer is a very special moment. My patients always describe the feeling that the earth is opening up beneath their feet. That they are plunging into the abyss. What I tell them all, at this very special time of the announcement, is that cancer is a life accident.

In general, when you consult a breast cancer specialist, he or she has a team around him or her: radiotherapist, chemotherapist, radiologist, geneticist, psychologist… The first visit also serves to introduce you to this team.

After taking the news, the question that inevitably comes up is “Why?” Today, almost every woman asks me this question at every consultation – which was not the case when I started this profession thirty years ago.

It’s an indisputable fact: since 1920, the number of breast cancers has been increasing. Between 1990 and 2018, the annual number of new cases in France has doubled from 30,000 to 58,400. Today, it is the most common cancer in women in France, as in the European Union and the United States.