L’« Expo 100 seins » à l’Hôtel de Région à Bordeaux, Limoges et Poitiers | Sud-Ouest – Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The Region is hosting the “100 Breasts Expo”, set up by the Jeune & Rose association. The exhibition is installed until March 4, 2022 in the halls of each site: Bordeaux, Limoges and Poitiers.
Jeune & Rose was created in April 2017 in Saint-Paul-de-Blaye (33) by two young patients to form a collective to fight against breast cancer, carrying out actions for young women and health professionals.
As part of its health roadmap, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region wishes to respond to the major challenges of transforming the health system by promoting the implementation of prevention and health education actions throughout the region. Region.
Among the proposed systems is the annual call for projects PREVA’NA (Prevention and actions in New Aquitaine) which proposes prevention actions through three components:
- A “target public” section that favors support for prevention projects with a regional dimension
- A thematic section dedicated to cancer, which targets preventive actions in this area
- A territorial component for prevention projects carried out either within the framework of Local Health Contracts, or Territorial Professional Health Communities, or Territorial Hospital Groups and their shared medical projects, or local hospitals.
This exhibition is supported through the cancer section of the PREVA’NA call for projects. It is part of the Télététon action, which raises awareness among young people about breast cancer through several modules, including the animation and health education project through artistic practices.
Young & Pink Association
Founded in 2017, the Association Jeune & Rose has the principle of not counting within its team only former patients who were affected by breast cancer when they were under 40 years old.
The objective is to talk about breast cancer by having experienced it, and to share their experiences. Transform the disease into a real act of resilience and transmission. This association has a clear position, that of passing messages in a positive, sometimes funny way, often out of step with the references of their generation. She wants to value the patients and not stigmatize them, their speech is not a victim speech, they move forward and want to think of solutions and not just raise problems.
In addition, they offer awareness-raising, sometimes preventive actions, but when they carry out preventive action, it is every day with the active participation of health professionals. They are not doctors, however they work with them because they think it is essential to build bridges between patients and caregivers to bring a new perspective on breast cancer in young women.
Finally, this association advocates solidarity and respectful values. It is a collective of close-knit patients who support each other in respect of each other’s beings and desires.
breast cancer in young people
Each year in France, 10% of breast cancers are characterized in women under 40 (i.e. 5,000 cases including 1,500 before the age of 35). Unfortunately, this figure seems to be increasing, at least the incidence of breast cancer in young women is changing in a negative way for them.
In young women, breast cancers are much more aggressive and grow rapidly. They are more difficult to treat, hence the capital importance of early diagnosis and preventive measures such as breast self-examination.
Breast cancer in young women unfortunately often occurs late, which can have serious consequences. Statistically, breast cancer mainly affects women between the ages of 50 and 75. Breast cancer screening campaigns are therefore aimed at women in this age group. The strong communication around screening devices has organized a tendency to anchor in the collective unconscious, including health professionals, that before the age of 50 one is “too young” to have breast cancer. . These delays in diagnosis are therefore frequent, especially during pregnancy or breastfeeding, periods during which cancer is often confused by patients and caregivers with natural changes in the mammary glands induced by hormones.
A personal life
Often at the start of their career, it is difficult for these young women to stay on course with salaries and absences. Professional expectations are dwindling, returning to work is also a challenge. However, it is not only professional life that is turned upside down, but also family and social life. Indeed, they often feel out of step with those around them, it is difficult to remain in the lightness of one’s youth when one is confronted with death. Self-confidence, self-image, acceptance of one’s new body, hair loss are also major difficulties. In addition, announcing the disease to their young children or managing the care of young children during their treatment are also problems they face.
Maternity prospects put to the test
Treatments such as regenerative products, for example, or prospects for hormone therapy can make you infertile, and therefore put pregnancy plans on hold temporarily or permanently. In addition, to avoid recurrences, an artificial menopausal protocol called chemical castration can be imposed on the patient.
A strong psychological impact
In young women, it happens that breast cancers are concomitant with the arrival of a baby. Psychologically welcoming life and illness at the same time is very destabilizing and can cause great trauma and difficulties in the mother-child relationship.