Thierry Ardisson’s family announced his death from liver cancer on July 14. What are the risk factors and symptoms of this disease? Here’s what you need to know.
“Thierry died as he lived.” “As a brave and free man.” With these words, Audrey Crespo-Mara, journalist and wife of Thierry Ardisson, described her husband’s death on July 14 at the age of 76. “He had been ill for years. Years. There were changes, treatments. Until the day when there were no more possible treatments. The devastating blow came on Wednesday, when we realized it was a matter of days,” his old friend Laurent Baffie told Le Parisien….@@@
In the documentary *The Hidden Face of the Man in Black*, written and directed by Audrey Crespo-Mara and broadcast on July 16 on TF1, Thierry Ardisson reveals that he had been suffering from liver cancer since 2012. The documentary team accompanied him to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (APHP) in Paris in December 2024, when he was about to undergo radiotherapy. A few months later, in March 2025, he discovered he had nodules in his lungs.
What are the risk factors for liver cancer? Liver
cacer is among the cancers with the worst prognosis, according to the French League Against Cancer. In 2023, 11,660 new cases were registered in France, and 76% of them affected men. It is worth noting that this disease occurs more frequently in a liver already weakened by alcoholic cirrhosis or viral hepatitis.
Alcohol is the leading risk factor for liver cancer, accounting for 48% of new cases, according to the French National Cancer Institute (INCa). Tobacco use, hepatitis B and C, obesity and being overweight, hemochromatosis, fatty liver disease, and a sedentary lifestyle are also risk factors.
The following are some signs that may be indicative of liver cancer:
