PARIS — When Herve found out he had glioblastoma — the most aggressive form of brain cancer — at the age of 40, he made a deal with himself.
"I said to myself: It is serious, but you are at war — and you're going to win," the French teacher, who did not want to give his surname, told AFP.Eight years later, following surgery to remove the tumour, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Mr Herve is still winning his war.
"We call them outliers," said Nicolas Wolikow, the CEO and co-founder of the Paris-based firm Cure51. The project will involve patients who lived for more than three or five years after being diagnosed with three of the deadliest cancers: Glioblastoma, metastatic pancreatic cancer and small-cell lung cancer.
So the firm has partnered with 50 cancer centres around the world to get data from a wider variety of survivors.Once the data is collected"we will begin analysing medical reports, images, tumour cells", Mr Wolikow said. On Wednesday, Cure51 announced it has raised 15 million euros for the project. Eventually, it hopes to be financed through collaborations with other biotech firms or pharmaceutical labs.
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