You wouldn’t know about it though, your doctors would just tell you that they are out of therapeutic options and to gather with your loved ones, unaware of the fact that your cancer is actually treatable.

Source: Am French, happened to a very good friend of mine 5years ago. They ended up surviving after a gofundme paid for a US treatment, administered in a private hospital in Barcelona. They made it and are doing well now, thanks to the “evil US private capitalist health system”

Zooming out - if the US were like France, these drugs would not be developed in the first place. France is lucky that there are other countries willing to shoulder R&D costs for them.