In Vendée, where she lives, Sonia Noël, 51, confirms this “Everyone knows the fire breaker”These people claim to have the talent of controlling burns. The person you requested is doing business “Art” Free. After an initial phone call, I warned him before each radiotherapy session, so he could “Think about it”. Bottom line: crossed “Twenty sessions without excruciating pain, you hardly feel any discomfort.”.
The same feeling is felt by Brigitte Le Lay, who consulted a fire breaker twice, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, and when it recurred this year. “After the first radiotherapy, my left breast was burned, and since I called the firefighter, nothing has happened.”confirms this sixty-year-old woman from the Nantes region, who nevertheless says it “Cartesian”.
Within ten years, I noticed a change in caregivers' attitudes toward this ancestral practice: “In 2013, they were not very open about the issue, and today much more so, even if they confirm that the firecracker will not cure cancer. »
In Sonya Noel's case, her oncologist was the first one to talk to her about it, before starting the protocol, and he told her about it “Some patients have found real benefit from this practice.”.
Today, some hospitals such as Timon in Marseille or the Bergogne Institute in Bordeaux have lists of fire retardants to offer to patients who request them. Eric Dudoit, an oncology psychologist at Timon, says he took this initiative in 2005 in order to best support the urgent demand of patients, “Offer them a list of trustworthy people who do not take money for their sessions, and prevent them from encountering charlatans.”. “Medicine is not all-powerful, and must listen to patients who only ask for relief from their suffering and pain.”He begs.
A study conducted at the Lucien Neuwirth Cancer Institute (Loire) showed that 58% of patients treated for breast cancer used fire breakers. It was concluded that the rate of side effects from radiotherapy was the same in patients who used fire retardants as in those who did not.
Sectarian risks
Co-author of this study and radiation therapist at the Bergoni Institute, Professor Nicolas Magni, comes to a contradictory conclusion: “Patients were happy to use the Fire Cutter, but there was no difference in terms of side effects, except that those who used the Cutter were more tired, without us understanding why. » And he thinks so “As long as the fire breaker doesn’t get in the way of academic medicine.” It provides free care, and its use can help some people with cancer.
Brigitte Le Lay realizes this: “I don't know what makes me feel good, whether it's his care or his presence, but these sessions calm my anxiety.” Professor Norbert Ifrah, head of the National Cancer Institute (INCA), points out that these methods “It is not prohibited as long as the patient obtains a beneficial effect (moral well-being, improved quality of life)” And that they do not interfere with his treatment. But they are “They have no scientific evidence to prove its effectiveness.”He remembers. Without wearing “value judgment”Mifilods (Ministerial Mission for Vigilance and Combating Sectarian Violations) believes that “Any risk of drift cannot be ruled out.”. Danger is characterized “Mental destabilization, disproportionate service costs, family breakdown, and attacks on people’s physical integrity.”.
