Receiving a cancer diagnosis is not inevitably a death sentence. The study Cancer numbers in Italy 2024a volume presented every year and which has reached its fourteenth edition, reveals how in the last year There are 3.7 million people living with cancer in Italy.
Half of those who get sick today are destined to recover. The research was carried out by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM), AIRTUM (Italian Association of Tumor Registries), AIOM Foundation, National Screening Observatory (ONS), PASSI (Progressi delle Aziende Sanitarie per la Salute in Italia), PASSI d’ Argento and the Italian Society of Pathological Anatomy and Diagnostic Cytology (SIAPeC-IAP). The study analyzes aspects of tumor diagnosis and treatment, showing data and percentages relating to recent years in Italy and in the rest of the world.
Data from tumor registries highlight a increase in the number of people surviving after diagnosis1.5% more per year in the last decade, of which 1.6% among women and 1.3% among men.