Marie died on September 17, 2014 from cancer, she had just turned 15 years old.

In December 2012, Marie, 13 years old, noticed a lump in her thigh rapidly evolving. After examinations and biopsy, the oncologists of the pediatric department of the Gustave Roussy Institute announced to us in early February 2013 that it was a rare tumor, at the time related to Ewing's sarcoma (CiC Dux 4) .

Marie then begins a long fight, with a protocol of 4 days of chemotherapy every 3 weeks for 12 months, interspersed with a major surgery, 6 weeks of radiotherapy, transfusions .....

Her tumor, initially located in the thigh, spread to the lungs in June 2014 after a 3-month remission period. Marie was one of the few teenagers to join the MOSCATO trial, which uses high-throughput analysis techniques to obtain a molecular portrait of each patient's tumor and thus direct them to more suitable targeted therapies. From June to September 2014 Marie benefited from 3 different specific protocols which were unsuccessful ...