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One in five women will get cancer,

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which means 160 women in this room.

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As for the others,

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you will also be affected,
if only indirectly.

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This is a tragedy,

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but what if it were
also part of the solution?

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When I became ill,

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my sisters, by blood and by heart,


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saw to it that I would never go alone
to chemotherapy.

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They ran errands, cooked, wrote, called,

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in short, exerting incredible energy 
to see me through.


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This energy, this need to be useful,
to stick together,

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is very powerful 
when you've been hit yourself.

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One in five women, plus their sisters
by blood or by heart,

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add up to a lot of women
who have to deal with cancer

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and the energy it requires.

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Along with them,

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we have researchers
who do an extraordinary job.

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Today, one out of two cancers is cured,

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while only one in three
was being cured in the '90s.

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What is less known 
is what Dr. Fabien Reyal,

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researcher at the M. Curie Institute
and my partner, explained to me.

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Namely that researchers need us
to participate in their studies,

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whether we have been ill or not.

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In order to find us,
they waste precious time.

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To get us in the doctor's office,
in the waiting rooms,

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or look us up in the white pages.

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For them, recruiting volunteers

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is time consuming, 
laborious and expensive.

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That's why we created "Seintinelles".
[Saint-inels]

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Specifically, it's a website

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where women sign up 
by giving us their email address,

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so that we can inform them


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each time a researcher needs volunteers
to participate in their study.

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We've been online for one year,

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and we already have 6,800 women

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who've been asked to participate
in four studies,

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and this is only the beginning.

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We are aiming for 50,000 Seintinelles,

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as we want to open up to men
and other countries

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because solidarity and goodwill
have no borders.

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"Saint-inels" is a play on words,
of course,

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but it's much more than that.

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Cancer is a deadly war.

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Alone, we can only win a battle,

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but not the war.

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To win a war,

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we need an army.

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In this room, there are 1,600 
who could join our army.

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You are sixteen hundred 
more reasons to hope.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)