Lyons. Gérard Collomb turns out to have cancer –
Text: Marco Polisson – Aged 75, the honorary mayor of Lyon publicly announces this morning that he is starting treatment for cancer.
We left him in great shape, at the end of June, gala dinner Top 500 Lyonnais – at the requested course Christophe Guilloteau gave him, on behalf of the prefect, his medal of honorary mayor of Lyon – and we were waiting for his return to politics scheduled for these days. But bad news, arriving unexpectedly, as if by breaking and entering, turned everything upside down.
Since three weeks ago, Gerard Collomb had difficulty swallowing. With recurring heartburn that takes him to his doctor. The practitioner, intrigued, prescribed him a number of analyzes in a Lyon hospital, the results of which fell on Monday, September 12, 2022. The verdict is precise: his pains are caused by stomach cancer.
Gérard Collomb begins treatment next week
On the phone last night, when we contacted him about the upcoming Festival of Lights, Gege did not have his voice of the bad days. The effect of (bad) surprise passed, he shows himself to be combative and determined, like one of his most faithful friends who is also fighting courageously against the disease. But vigilance is required “because it’s a sneaky cancer” he analyzes. “It’s all the more infuriating that I had just returned from vacation, in great shape! “.
Two months of rest and serenity which led him, with his wife carolina and their daughters in Lisbon, in the Vercors then on the big island of Eubée, in Greece. It is with these beautiful images in his head that Gérard Collomb will start his treatment without delay. His first chemo is scheduled for next Wednesday. As for its reappearance in the political arena, it will wait: priority to health!
With my partner Nicolas, on behalf of the team of The Lyonnais and from our loyal readers, we wholeheartedly wish him a speedy recovery.