The Pink Ribbon 2024 Awards ceremony took place at the French National Assembly on Thursday, January 16, 2025. This grandiose evening, hosted by Leïla KADDOUR-BOUDADI, journalist and radio and TV host, opened with a moving, personal and engaging speech by Madame Yaël BRAUN-PIVET, President of the French National Assembly.
What is the Ruban Rose association?
In October 1994, the "Le Cancer du Sein, Parlons-en!" awareness campaign was launched in France. Its aim was to mobilize women and those around them by raising awareness of breast cancer through information and dialogue, and of theimportance of screening.
In France today, one woman in eight is at risk of developing breast cancer: "anticipating", "preventing" and "raising awareness" are actions that can effectively limit the consequences of this disease. It is this hope that brought together, for the first time 25 years ago, a cosmetics group, Estée Lauder France and Marie Claire magazine, the historic founding members of the Association which will bear the name of this campaign "Le Cancer du Sein, Parlons-en!
In 2020, the "Le Cancer du Sein, Parlons-en!" association wanted to give greater prominence to the founding symbol of the fight against breast cancer by changing its name to "Ruban Rose".
Pink Ribbon Awards
In 2003, the French association created the Pink Ribbon Awards to support clinical and biological research efforts, as well as innovations and remarkable advances in screening techniques, reconstructive surgery, psychology and improved quality of life for women with breast cancer.
In France since 2004, over 8 million euros have been donated by the association to breast cancer research. Each campaign is symbolically marked by the illumination of prestigious monuments and sites in France and around the world.
On Thursday, January 16, 2025, several Pink Ribbon Awards were presented, raising a total of 3 million euros:
- Grand Prize of €350,000
- The Prix Avenir, worth €225,000
- Research grants for past winners, worth 200 000 €
- Quality of Life Awards worth €150,000
- Major Project worth over €600,000
Baclesse wins a Ruban Rose Qualité de Vie award
For the second year running, the Centre Baclesse has won a Pink Ribbon Award.
Last year, Pr Florence JOLY, a medical oncologist at the Centre Baclesse, was awarded the Grand Prix de la Recherche for her work on understanding the neurological toxicities of cancer treatments. Alongside her, Virginie PREVOST, a researcher at the Centre Baclesse in the ANTICIPE team, was awarded a Ruban Rose Qualité de Vie prize, for her project "Shared meditation involving people with cancer, caregivers and third parties: an added value compared to meditation conducted with patients? IMPLIC 2, a randomized study".
This year, the Espace Patients & Proches at the Centre Baclesse(formerly ERI) was awarded the Quality of Life Prize!
A very big BRAVO to Dr Carine SEGURA-DJEZZAR, oncologist and medical coordinator of the Espace Patients & Proches, accompanied by Karine GRANDIN and CHARLINE FEUILLET, both health coaches, who developed the "Baclesse&Vous" project.
"What is Baclesse&Vous?
It is a roving vehicle that travels to patients, their families, the general population and also to healthcare professionals in the area to reduce inequalities in access to information.
Its objectives are :
- Raising awareness of how to take charge of one's own health and promoting information as much as possible. That's what health literacy is all about!
- Providing information on topics such as prevention, screening, cancer and its treatment, supportive care, etc.
Discover the project on video!
A huge THANK YOU to Franck BESNARD, President of The Estée Lauder Companies France and the Ruban Rose association, to Sandrine PLANCHON, Director of the Ruban Rose association, and to the entire scientific committee and patrons for their invaluable support.
The Centre Baclesse is very proud of its professionals, who give their all every day in pursuit of excellence!
The rest of the project in October 2025...
