the debates in the National Assembly, the Councils of Ministers and working in the department, Dominique Bertinotti chained the appointment with the doctor, surgery and chemotherapy. For the first time, it unveiled the world her breast cancer, she just cure. It kept secret his disease for over eight months. François Hollande, the only familiar, respected the discretion of the minister. "We will see at once his hair very short," writes Le Monde. Because the minister will remove the wig she wears for several months. "A sick policy is a patient like any other. Except for the fact that it is constantly under the eyes," the newspaper said. All the while, she kept silent to not "be reduced to a cancer," she says. "I wanted to be a good minister sick, not sick a minister." If Dominique Bertinotti has decided to speak, that's "there is less fear, more understanding. For we reflect on inequalities facing the cost of comfort treatments, like special coating for nails or the wig, which are so important. ", she explains.

Dominique Bertinotti she was right to continue working despite illness?


Or is it that it passed a wrong message and induces some guilt in patients who choose not to? Amelie Bertin-Mourot who heads the Spark association remain woman with cancer is great that the minister unveils cancer. "Showbiz personalities had already taken the same approach, but here, she lifts a taboo: it continued to work with, I imagine at this position, a very fast pace." For her, keep working is a personal decision. "If their work can help them cope with the disease, they have every incentive to continue working. In addition, the fact that it is an important position could play. Often the high-placed people find it easier to adapt their time to their treatment. Contrary to what one thinks, when making chemotherapy, fatigue is not a permanent state. You are very tired the next day of a session, it could be -being arrange for not working at that time. I do not know how she managed all this thin skin lace wigs, but what is certain is that if it was too much damage, too tired, she would not able to continue. "