“Finding the mutation is the beginning of the journey, not the end, because we are talking about prevention. In favor of the prevention of ovarian cancer – among the 7 pathologies monitored by Agenas – Decree 100 was a success in Campania and allowed large populations of the Region to be screened for mutations”. This was said by Sandro Pignata, President of the ACTO Campania Scientific Technical Committee, Alliance against ovarian cancer, participating in the ‘Ovarian cancer in Campania: Let’s change course’ event in Naples – organized with the patronage of ACTO Campania and the sponsorship of GSK – which seen, starting from the virtuous example of the Region, a discussion between clinicians, institutional representatives, patient associations to continue the ‘change of direction’ and respond to the unsatisfied needs of women living with ovarian cancer.
Very recent data highlights that “in Campania, 4,500 oncogenetic consultations were carried out over the course of two years – explains Pignata – and today around 500 citizens of Campania who had an enormous risk of getting cancer have not contracted the disease. This should not satisfy us, because 500 is a few people, if we think about the share of potential mutated people, in particular of BRCA1 and BRCA2 that are present in our region. We need to screen more, we need to involve general medicine.” The same data from the Campania region also “tell us” that these 500 subjects who have the D-97 exemption do few preventive tests – underlines the President of the ACTO Campania Scientific Technical Committee – There is therefore a need to win a traditional and poor predisposition to prevention among the citizens of our region. To do this it takes a lot of communication, it takes everyone’s effort to talk to all the subjects: the doctors, but also the population to make it clear that many tumors, not just ovarian ones, are hereditary and we owe them find.”
The model of oncology networks “is developing, also driven by the digitalisation of the network, and is also popular in other regions – Pignata specifies – In these days we are in the process of signing the agreement documents with the Sicily region and the Basilicata region. We are waiting for a signal from the Calabria region, and from the Lazio region. So this creates a homogeneity of action in various regions of the South and could contribute to improving quality in many of these situations and contexts”. In this regard, “we have often seen the news of 3 thousand patients from Campania who are treated in the North. But we forget that these represent less than 10% of Campania patients who get cancer every year so, certainly, there is a reversal of the trend. In 2022 there was a 25% reduction in hospitalizations outside the region. The message, therefore – he concludes – has passed”.
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