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2011 - 04 - 04 CRP-Santé at Télévie Luxembourg
From April 6 to 17, 2011, CRP-Santé actively took part in Télévie organized in Luxembourg at the City Concorde - Bertrange. On this occasion, CRP-Santé employees distributed a comic strip on cancer research, an effort initiated and led by Amandine Bernard, member of the Norlux Neuro-Oncology team. This workshop also provided an overview on different cancer research projects currently developed at CRP-Santé. Finally, a video with the title “Life within a research unit” was presented: a young, dynamic team specialized in the oncology field working in close collaboration with the University of Bergen in Norway: the Norlux team. All these initiatives were developed under the leadership of Simone Niclou Head of the Norlux Neuro-Oncology Laboratory , assisted by Anais Oudin, Amandine Bernard, Virginie Baus and Christelle Ghoneim.
The comic which was distributed deals with a story about a child who visits his grandfather in hospital cured for cancer. The kid offers him a book about cancer and cancer research. The story begins with a cell which is very ambitious and wants to become immortal and conqueres the whole world. After thinking about how to reach this goal, the cell becomes immortal and therefore becomes cancer. “But this cancer seems to be very harmful, how can people be cured?” asks the boy to his grandfather. The grandfather explains his grandchild that many people are searching for treatments to cure cancer and the use of different techniques to study also cells biology. “Don’t worry” says the grandfather: I will recover from this cancer but research still goes on because all treatments for all cancers have not been discovered yet”.
The comic is written in a very easy and understandable manner: it can be read by children but also by adults. It will be soon translated in multiple languages (German, Luxembourgish, Portuguese).
Although it is about cancer, the story has a happy ending. If you want to read this comic please contact florence.henry@crp-sante.lu