Good evening, thank you for inviting me
they often say I look like a person
sweet serene that I can deal with
one with
a smile even the situations of
difficulty that conveys a sense of
peace
those who know me well know that it was not
always so that my figure was
another one
I was the rational one I was that
strict
when they tell me this I think back
the last 30 years of my life
the university work responsibility
always growing
the time always marked by commitments
continue what to do goals from
reach problems to be solved
the time always planned on the second
so as not to lose even a moment for it
do not waste it and so also in May
of 2008 when I hear for the first time
something that does not go on the right breast the
Breast cancer is home to the family has
hit my grandma hit my sister and
so I check every regularly
year the mammogram is fixed after three
months and I do not think to anticipate it not
I have time on the agenda at that time
and then it can not happen to me on July 24th
day of mammography
the doctor is very worried about the nodule
already 3 cm and I have to do a biopsy myself
gives the name of a pathologist his friend and me
he says to call him to fix it
immediately I telephone the pathologist e
I can not find space on the agenda before
next Saturday
I do not have time to devote to this thing e
then at least a little happen July 29th are
in the office the pathologist calls me for
tell me that the exam results
But he tells me he wants to talk about it
person gives me an appointment for the
afternoon at 2
I arrive at the hospital a little early
he is not there yet and the nurse without
thinking about it gives me a sealed envelope
the doctor arrives he tells me a word
terrible triple ductal carcinoma
negative
then he explains to me that a lot of cancer
aggressive and then we have to eliminate it
quickly and gives me the name of a
Milan surgeon who can operate me
I did not panic
I do the thing that I do best
I put to plan immediately called the
a fixed surgeon’s secretary
by chance, he is free
menu directly in the afternoon
Next I ‘m in Siena I look
the clock I do some calculations and I
I put in the car to go to Milan
from that moment time flows
They work very fast on the 7th of August
10 of August I’m back in the office and
a long work begins
medications work radiotherapy work
chemotherapy I sleep 12 hours a night for
to be able to continue working during
day
not even the dosages of chemo that
they must be changed twice
reduced because I did not absorb the
Medicinal shake me or a program from
reach I want to come back
immediately to my normal life
I want to take back my time but I had
reckoned without the host August of
2009 we go on vacation we put ourselves in
car to go to Puglia and
during the trip the first signs
after a few hours driving
I’m tired and the next morning on
beach on the rocks
I can not stay in balance
awareness begins to grow in me
that something has changed
I can not stay awake after the hour of
dinner even a glass of wine gives me
at the head
I can not carry weights and as if
I had suddenly aged 10
years
also in this case the rationality
prevale come back to siena I call a doctor
of sports medicine and he tells me
see if like a boxer played later
dozens of matches but do not worry
to get back into shape and so after a
year of physiotherapy pool gym
finally the August of 2010 succeeded
to enjoy the holidays cheers wonder woman
She is back
or maybe not in these two years are
changed other things my husband decided
to retire to return to
live in the same city my son has
found a job and went to work
abroad
I feel the urge to make sense
different at this time that I was
given birth from the simplest things
I begin to find the time for mine
friends what I did not do now for 30
years
on Saturday I do not have to travel any more
I began to volunteer began to
reflect on what can be
the evolution of my life and 50 years
in 2013 I find the courage to leave
a job that drained all my strength
and all my time to try
take some time for me for
understand what to do when you grow up
I begin to use a different time
time of opportunity the time of
reflection the time of the good
opportunity for dollars with coupon
lightness to listen to people
discuss my opinions and with whom
it can also have a different opinion
from my
to open the mind’s heart and leave
that dreams bring me new solutions to
problems that seemed insurmountable
in that year I know many people who
like me they got cancer and
talking to them I realize one
something that I probably had
tried but I was not able to
rationalizing cancer is scary
and what is the first reaction we have
to deny the fear
I myself had said many times to me not
it will happen instead you must know that the
cancer affects one thousand people in Italy
per day
just to give you a different idea of di
this number is still a is a great
you must know that it is estimated that in the arc
one man out of two is one
woman out of three in Italy will get sick of
cancer this disease is much more
widespread than what is thought of the
cancer is scared cancer is perceived
like a death sentence
and true there are cancers mo
and true there are a lot of cancers
aggressive there are cancers like the
lung cancer liver cancer
to ovarian cancer that do not leave
many hopes to survive for a long time
however many of the most frequent tumors
they have chances of survival
much higher you must know that of
ten men who will get sick of
cancer this year more than five will be
you live still in five years of ten
women who will get cancer
this year six will still be alive in
five years and many of them will be
you still live in many years
just to give you another number there are
in Italy today 3 million and 300 thousand
people who survive cancer and that
it means that one Italian out of 20 has had
this this experience
there is something that can make the difference
the difference is diagnosed
early and the quality of care
I was lucky, she controlled me
I had a good senologist who found it
the problem had a good pathologist who
he understood that it was a lot of football
Aggressive addressed me to a center
of care that saved my life but not
it’s always like that
you must know that there are in Italy
among the three screening programs
more frequent tumors and about four
people out of ten in Italy 40 per
one hundred does not answer the call of
screening even if free because it has
fear of diagnosis and if you look at
regional level there are regions
especially in southern Italy where the
response to screening is less than
20 percent
it was something I could not bear
I had to do something
so I started yes indeed
this is also another aspect that is
terrible
in the south you get sick less because yes
The lifestyles are better lives
better, however, you die more just
because people do less prevention
so I started writing about
My illness began to talk about it
many years after it happened because
we are in 2013 and I saw that
personal experience combined with one
simple language and always anyway
with a scientific rigor of the
information that I gave in my blog
he took hold
so I began to aggregate
around me different skills from
my skills that I did not have that me
they could help find a solution
together with these people slowly there
we are first given a goal to try
to understand if we could change the
a person’s perception of cancer
time and then we found one
there are 17 million in Italy
of people
of employees if we were
managed to get to these people
we would have already done one of their families
huge step forward
that’s how the was born
first transmedia program of
education on cancer prevention
in Italy intended for companies that do
they want to take care of them
employees who care about health
of their employees
we called it new in belief anymore
knowledge less fear
and this will be my next story
thank you
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