74 votes for, no against. After a visit to the Senate on June 18, the law for the creation of a national cancer register was adopted unanimously at the National Assembly. Currently, only local authorities have registers on their scale, but not all of them are provided, as in the Paris region, in the North, in Loire-Atlantique or in the Lyon region.
33 local registers currently cover 24 % of the French population. Many people are unaware of the causes of their cancer, often through the fault of what is called a “cocktail effect” that mixes data and prevents identifying the source (s) of this disease which was even more than 430,000 dead in 2023, according to statistics from the National Cancer Institute.
Piloted by the latter, the national register would aim to become ” a tool of health justice, of territorial equity According to the Minister of Health from the ranks of the Republicans, Yannick Neuder. He engages the government’s responsibility in the development and application of a decree fixing the terms of application of this law before the end of the year.
A register, okay, but for how much?
On the league side of cancer, this decree was firmly expected. “” The government has disengaged from already existing registers. In Loire-Atlantique for example, the government has disengaged by € 35,000. We decrease the money we are given but we sign the creation of new registers? “Worries Philippe Bergerot, president of the League. “” We are very worried and we will carefully follow the modalities of its implementation ».
Alma Dufour, deputy La France insoumise, joins him. “” Austerity kills “, She says since the hemicycle perch,” We have a good memory ». It refers to the abolition by the Bayrou government of 15 million euros for research for pediatric cancer of the 2025 budget, before being reinjected following the scandal born of this decision. “” The battle against cancer is also played with the necessary means “, She concludes.
« It will be necessary to ensure that in the next social security financing bill for 2026, there are credits allocated to the implementation of this system “Explains the former Minister of Health and Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee Frédéric Valletoux.
A step forward to obtain full management of health problems
This national cancer register was requested by the Union of Victims of the Fire of the Lubrizol factory in Rouen, in particular, which also await its implementation. Following the accident, they asked for it at the departmental level. However, the response that had been given to them was that national data already existed. “” Finally, we reach the age of reason Reacted Christophe Holleville, the secretary of the National Union of Victims of Lubrizol.
« Victims are affected by cancer -type pathologies and still call us today to tell us that their doctors deny the link between the factory fire and their cancer ». Today, the victims need the recognition of a link between the two, in particular to obtain full management of health problems that have followed the fire and their pathologies, he explains.
But if it is useful for those who need to identify the reasons for their cancer, this register is voted in parallel with several scandalous cases, in particular the transition to the joint joint committee of the so -called “Dupumb” law from June 30 which would authorize the use of carcinogenic pesticides.
« This register is a thermometer in a fire house », Attack Marie-Charlotte Garin, MP for environmentalists. “” Do not vote for a law that does exactly the opposite of what you have just said She urges her colleagues. An event is scheduled for June 29 everywhere in France on the initiative of several associations.
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