This is an unprecedented situation in Love is in the Meadow. Flavie, Valentin’s suitor, has announced to be suffering from cancer and more precisely a cutaneous Ewing sarcoma. In a interview granted to Parisianthe 21-year-old young woman explains that she was initially operated on for a tumor in her shoulder which was supposed to be benign.
But in the episode of Love is in the Meadow which will be broadcast next Monday, November 11 and which is already available to subscribers of the M6 + platform, the 21-year-old young woman explains: two months later, she received a call telling her that “the analyzes are not good”. She was then told that she had a “Cutaneous Ewing sarcoma”. Treatment follows by chemotherapy and the realization of a PET-scan “which, fortunately, revealed nothing more”she adds to the Parisian. If today, her state of health allows her to return to work, she can also count on the support of Valentin: “I won’t let you down, I’m not like that”, assures the farmer of 27 in the columns of the daily.
Cutaneous Ewing sarcoma: what is this very rare cancer?
Sarcomas refer to tumors. The term “primary tumor” “refers to the place in the body where Ewing’s sarcoma started”writes the Gustave Roussy Institute on its website before specifying that “Ewing tumors are considered ‘localized’ when the tumor is limited to this primary tumor”that is to say, they did not generate of metastases elsewhere in the body.
The sarcome d’Ewing is a tumor that develops mainly in the bone. Il “affects around 80 to 100 new patients per year in France”, 70% of whom are young people aged 5 to 25. But, “15% (of the sarcomes d’Ewing) can develop independently of a bone”. When it is localized in the dermis and/or hypodermis, that is to say in the shallow layers of the skin, we then speak of cutaneous or subcutaneous Ewing sarcoma.
How does cutaneous Ewing’s sarcoma manifest?
According to a document from the “Bone Tumors” group of the SFCE and GSF/GETO, the “cutaneous/subcutaneous forms of Ewing tumors are rare”, affecting 56 patients between 1996 and 2012 according to figures from 2015. Its diagnosis can be difficult due to its “benign” appearance, which can lead to incomplete treatment and without medical examinations for this type of disease. As the document explains, in the case of subcutaneous Ewing tumors, once the diagnosis has been made, “medical treatment is based on 6 months of chemotherapy”.
Flavie looks back on her journey with the Parisian : for 5 months, she followed chemotherapy and immunotherapy in Rennes, and explains having “been in the fight”. Despite nausea and vomiting, she says she “tolerated the treatment very well”. The young woman wants her story “has a prevention vocation” and encourages you to see a doctor “if you have doubts about your health. Even young, no one is safe”.
Sources :
- Flavie from “L’Amour est dans le pré” reveals her cancer during the show: “I’m in the fight” – Le Parisien – 05/11/2024
- Ewing sarcoma – Gustave Roussy Institute
- Recommendations for the management of pediatric and adult patients with Ewing type sarcoma of cutaneous/subcutaneous location – Bone tumor group of the French Society for Childhood Cancers (SFCE) and the French Sarcoma Group and Study Group Bone Tumors (GSF/GETO) (October 2017)
