Cancer: Agnes Buzyn for access to “advanced medicine” for all

Written by Sandeep Nehra

Buzyn Agnes, who was recently appointed to head the National Cancer Institute (INCA), will promote timely access to quality care for cancer patients, which “should not be concerned to know what clinic they fall.”

“They must have confidence that the center where they will be treated immediately guarantees them a high-tech medicine,” says the professor of hematology in an interview with AFP.

“My line of sight is a patient, where it is treated, do not say I + less chance that someone in a center recognized, ‘” she says.

Ms. Buzyn talking about it the need for professionals to harmonize their practices and the protocols they follow, so they “do not differ from one center to another.”

“It’s the least we owe to our fellow citizens,” said she.

Ms. Buzyn also stresses the need to provide “fast access to innovation, new molecules, to maintain patient hope,” and emphasizes in this regard on the possible role of new “centers labeled early phase “.

She also wants to develop caring for the patient in the “during and after cancer,” the return to ordinary life. “Changing the image of the disease in society is a major issue,” said she.

Professor Buzyn will abandon most of its other functions, but it will not leave the chair of the board of directors of the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) before finishing his work on the file Fukushima.

She talks about her role on this issue as “a public service mission to protect people.” She wants “to account for the feedback, all that happened, all the comments to further improve the efficiency of our security systems, security and public health”, especially among parliamentarians and supervisory bodies.

“I do not see myself leaving the institute in midstream,” she said, arguing that this work will be completed before the end of the year. ”

For the rest, Agnes Buzyn, responsible since 1992 by the Intensive Care Unit of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant at the Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades (Paris), will abandon its clinical activities, keeping only a consultation of a half day.

“I’m going and keep a foot on the ground and not to abandon patients I’ve been here for years.” “This will allow me,” she says, to “remain vigilant”.

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