Gianluca Franceschini, Full Professor of General Surgery and Director of the Master’s Program in Integrated Therapies for Female Oncological Pathologies at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, shared on LinkedIn:
“Beyond Cancer. From cancer treatment to personal care.
The real challenge of contemporary oncology is not only to treat cancer better but to take better care of people.
In Bologna, on the occasion of the conference ‘Beyond Cancer – Integrated oncology: the new paradigm of oncological care‘, I had the pleasure of giving the Lecture, sharing a vision that profoundly represents my mission as a doctor.
The progress of oncological medicine is extraordinary. But today it is no longer enough to increase the years of life: we must commit ourselves so that people can live fully and with the best possible quality the years we are able to give them.
From this conviction comes our model of care, or rather of ‘taking care’, which puts the person at the center through multidisciplinarity, personalized pathways, innovation, integrated oncology and doctor-patient alliance.
A cultural change: moving from a medicine focused on the disease to a medicine that recognizes and cares for the person as a whole.
A heartfelt thank you to Massimiliano Berretta for promoting this important opportunity for discussion and scientific growth; to Stefano Magno, Stefano Giordani, Andrea Di Blasio, Monica Montopoli and Cristina Rossi, with whom I shared a particularly stimulating dialogue, and to all the other speakers and participants for their valuable contributions.
Because the success of treatments is not measured only in the years of life we manage to earn but in the quality of life we are able to restore.
This is the medicine I believe in. This is our mission. Together, forward.
To turn an ambition into reality: to take care of patients and concretely put the person at the center of research and treatment.”
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