Louis Laforge talks about his fight against cancer

Last Saturday, Louis Laforge revealed on his social networks, photo of him in support on his hospital bed, having led a perilous fight against cancer. “It was a year ago, August 27, 2021 at the Pompidou Hospital: a kidney, a ureter canal, a piece of small intestine and colon and above all one less cancerhe wrote. Twelve months later, still some pain, still a bit of fatigue… But so happy to be alive! A big thank you to all the health professionals who do a wonderful job despite very precarious conditions. A thought also to all those who are fighting against the disease. » The 54-year-old journalist, who has been working on the franceinfo channel since September 2016, also took care to thank “all teams” of its editors for their support and trust.

Confidences that have moved Internet users and aroused many testimonies of sympathy. Thursday evening, Louis Laforge came to speak in person on the set of “C to you” live on France 5. “My little story is so banal, there are nearly 5 million French people living with cancer, it’s a scourge despite technological, digital and medical advancessaid the journalist. There is a little hope, there are cancers that can be treated and we can get out of it. » The native of Saint-Galmier said he discovered he was suffering from cancer shortly before the summer of 2021. “I was going to go on vacation and I didn’t want to have this question mark, this little discomfort that became a little painhe recalled. I went to see my GP who gave me a CT scan. » A test that revealed a tumor the size of “of a golf ball” in the right kidney and “other weird little things”.

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“Emotion listening to you, my Louis Laforge. You’re alive you said coming back to us this year. Thank god. I, we love you”, reacted his colleague Patricia Loison on Twitter on the sidelines of the broadcast of “C à vous”. Several months after his hospitalization, the journalist returned to franceinfo in March 2022 for the presidential campaign and the animation of the election evenings of the news channel.