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Stories of winners. Stories of 16 patients who have beaten cancer. Nine men and seven women have recounted the anguish and despair at diagnosis. But without ever losing the strength to rise to the possibility of using innovative therapies immuno-oncology. These are the stories of 16 patients in the book “You can win” (ed. Guerini, pp.170, by Mauro Boldrini, Sabrina Smerrieri, Paul Cabra, in bookstores in September at a price of 14.50 euro and income from sales They are intended to AIOM Foundation) presented at the 51st Congress of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which ends today, June 2.
BOOK – Their quality of life is good today and, in some cases, can claim to have finally defeated the disease. “The volume – said prof. Carmine Pinto, national president of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM) – is part of a broad campaign of our scientific society sull’immuno-oncology, with the support of Bristol-Myers Squibb. The book is divided into two parts. In the first we have analyzed the evolution of cancer treatment in recent decades, responding to questions about how they have changed the treatment, with emphasis on surgery, chemotherapy, biological therapy, and radiation therapy. It then described the new phase in the treatment of tumors represented dall’immuno-oncology, which activates the immune system to fight cancer cells and that can raise expectations of survival. ” Melanoma has been the model for its application, now this approach is being extended successfully to other cancers, such as lung and kidney. “Through its mechanism of action – continues the professor. Pinto -, immuno-oncology unable to restrict and stop the disease for a long period. We are facing an important new oncology of the third millennium. In the second part we collected significant evidence of patients treated with immuno-oncology, men and women who, in some cases, living with the disease for many years with a good quality of life. A very important objective, already achieved in other diseases such as HIV infection. With the new treatments are succeeding more and more available to the chronic course of some cancers. “
CANCER BEHIND – In recent decades we are witnessing in Italy to a progressive increase in the number of patients with a “long history of cancer behind” were less than a million and a half in the early nineties Two and a half million in 2012, almost three million in 2014. In 2020 there will be four and a half million. The scenario of oncology is rapidly changing: the tumors have a strong influence as a disease of old age and the number of new cases is growing in relation to the progressive aging of the population.
MINISTER – “The data, figures and findings – said the Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, in the preface of the book – tells us that the fight against this disease, in part already defeated, can score every day points in favor of those who fought. This volume collects the precious testimonies of patients treated with a new weapon, immunotherapy. Their words convey to us courage, strength and, above all, hope. It is essential to ensure that all patients care more and more innovative research provides. Aspire to high standards of prevention and treatment is not only an ambition of technological and scientific progress but also of civilization and democracy. Address the issue of health means tackling the expectations and hopes of millions of patients, empathize with their daily inconveniences and defend their quality of life. “
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