Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen and first deputy secretary of the French Socialist Party (PS), announced on Wednesday that he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer. bladder cancer since 2022, specifying “very well”. “I was diagnosed, in early 2022, with my first cancerous tumor of the bladder.”said the mayor at a press conference. “I wanted to inform you of this for the sake of transparency.” After an operation in 2022, then another in 2023, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol underwent a third operation in June 2024. He specified that his cancer was not very advanced, without metastases, but “high-grade, i.e. the cells are very aggressive”.which explains the recurrences.

The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faurewelcomed the “courageous fight” Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, whom he regularly confronts on the party line. “Cancer should no longer be a taboo. Thank you for the example and the hope.” The disease has, according to Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, “increased his commitment tenfold”.to break the “taboo” of cancer in the workplace. “Has the disease led me to lower my sails? Or to work less? Or to commit less? Or to be less present? Not only not, but quite the opposite.”he said. “Beyond (his)own personal situation”.he underlines his “the will to act so that these issues are better understood”..

“No genetic origin”

As a result, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol announced a “action plan in the city of Rouen and the metropolitan area for “fight isolation during illness”., “facilitating the return to employment and “develop a caring, aware and welcoming professional ecosystem”. “We want to talk about all this in a simpler, more fluid way, without taboos. We’re going to set up ‘discussion groups’, as we call them. We’re going to invite personalities.”detailed the mayor.

According to Rouen’s mayor, his cancer “is not of genetic origin”.underlining the “environmental origins” of this disease, i.e. in connection with “air quality, food quality, water quality”.. “Just one figure. The cancer I have, there are 5 times more in Seine-Maritime than in France, on national average.” “I’m fighting to improve the quality of life in our conurbation.”he assured us.