(Adnkronos) - “L’oncologia è un settore complesso, anche dal punto di vista dei numeri. Abbiamo in questo momento oltre 3.600.000 persone che convivono con una diagnosi di cancro,” ha spiegato Luisa Fioretto, Direttore del Dipartimento Oncologico Asl Toscana Centro e presidente CIPOMO, intervenuta alla manifestazione. “L’impatto psicosociale della malattia oncologica, in particolare nelle donne con tumore al seno, richiede interventi riabilitativi e supportivi. Non è un caso che questa attività, come il Dragon Boat, sia particolarmente significativa per le donne: rappresenta prevenzione, empowerment e una grande testimonianza di coraggio.”
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00:00When it comes to oncology, it must be said that it is a complex sector, complex from the point of view of numbers.
00:12At the moment we have more than 3.7 million people who are confronted with cancer diagnosis and live with predictable assistance needs.
00:23As far as breast cancer is concerned, in Tuscany we think there are about 3,500 new diagnoses per year.
00:29And we have a high survival rate, around 88%.
00:33Thanks to early diagnosis screening programs, it is an ever more stringent therapeutic innovation, I would say almost disruptive for women.
00:44So it changes the profile of the patient, it changes the profile of the treatment approach.
00:48But in particular I would like to emphasize the impact from a psychosocial point of view of oncological disease,
00:54and in particular in women with breast cancer, where they are confronted at the time of diagnosis with a before and after,
01:01with aspects that also concern the disintegration of the body image, as well as an impact on the entire family unit.
01:08Hence the flourishing of supportive and expressive activities, both individual and group, from a rehabilitative point of view.
01:16And the activity we are witnessing today goes beyond the rehabilitative aspect, to the prevention aspect,
01:23the aspect of education and health on lifestyles, also associating with pathologies such as cardiovascular diseases.
01:30The risk factors are often the same, they are superimposable.
01:34But it is not only all this, in addition to empowering, to give in some way the rudder of one's life in the hands of women, in the hands of patients,
01:47but I would also say that in some way it is a great testimony, a testimony of courage, of determination.
01:55And I would say that each of the women who carry out this activity in the Dragon Boat,
02:01I believe they represent a bit of an agent of change for the whole community.