This is what, in the absence of rational explanations, we call a miracle. Lucas, a 12-year-old Belgian boy, no longer has traces of an extremely aggressive tumor considered incurable.
Six years ago, he was diagnosed with “infiltrating brainstem glioma,” a brain cancer that affects dozens of children each year. Today “he has nothing left,” his parents assure him. Parisian, however, without saying the word “healing”, as a precaution.
Lucas’ family has come a long way. “The doctors were clear. They gave us the statistics, which were not good, not good at all…”, recalls the father, Cédric. But Lucas defied all the odds.
A cure without treatment
Treated at the Gustave-Roussy cancer center in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), the preteen gradually eliminated the disease. The strong treatment he ingested daily had nothing to do with it, since no medication to date has cured this cancer.
A year ago, when all the signs were green for Lucas, his doctor chose to stop treatment. A difficult decision that had no negative effect on the child. On the contrary, he only confirmed his remission.
Doctors are now trying to understand what happened to the boy so that his experience can be useful to other children. “We believe that Lucas had a particular form of the disease. We need to understand what and why in order to be able to medically reproduce in other patients what happened naturally to him. That would be fantastic,” says doctor Jacques Grill of the Gustave Hospital-Roussy Hospital.
According The ParisianEight other young patients followed within the framework of the Biomede clinical trial carried out by the Gustave-Roussy hospital are today considered “prolonged responders”, without relapses three years after their diagnosis.
Lucas’s family only has one wish: “that Lucas is not the exception.”
Source: BFM TV
