lomiolith - March 21, 2010
Berlusconi: "defeat cancer"
Berlusconi said his government will defeat the cancer. We also want to win the cancer that strikes every year 250 thousand Italians and that affects almost two million of our citizens. We must address these three years of a strong full mandate
The alarm raised by the medical oncologists AIOM maneuver on the cuts that the government was preparing to do work will be done to block the turn-over in practice will in time reduction of qualified staff able to use the complicated electrical machines to treat cancer.
Fazio course, the minister was quick to 'disprove' that the maneuver does not imply any cut in either the number or in kind or in quality Performance for the treatment of cancer.
A strange 'denial' not at all convincing for the following two reasons: First
, does not deny that it is operating, but if it does not make any cut that maneuver? According
, but if it is not a maneuver that cuts but adds resources, then why not say tacerla and the extent of these resources?
So much so that fight cancer, the Knights 'defeat' oncology pace of those who still believe him. A promise kept this particular because the contrary!
Raffaele B.
ANSA
maneuver, Aiom: cut oncology
Fazio: no cuts to benefits cancer
05 June, 17:21
(ANSA) - CHICAGO (ILLINOIS), 5 June - The oncology and with it, people with cancer, will pay the highest price for the cuts to health care. Denial of Fazio. For the Association of Medical Oncology there 'concern about the impact on care for cancer patients: blocking the turnover subtract staff. 'The budget does not cut it no' in number, it 'in the typology, it' in the quality of service for the treatment of cancer 'replies the minister
MEDICINE LIVE
maneuver, planned cuts for cancer care but Fazio denies
Di Paola Pagliaro
The budget package proposed by the Government is also discussing the Italian Association of Medical Oncology , worried about the alleged cuts in funding for to cancer care. The warning is Carmelo Iacono, president Aiom, spoke at the international conference the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO ) being held in Chicago (Illinois):
We are concerned that cuts in public health will have important consequences in the delivery of cancer patients. Oncology, and with it, people affected by cancer, will end up paying the highest price for the cuts in health care costs imposed by economic measures.
concern and especially the block of personnel turnover that subtract the care of cancer patients . But the lack of staff to diagnostic equipment:
To reduce waiting lists is necessary that all equipment is working on 12 hours, otherwise we run the risk of having opened up new structures for PET, CAT scan and magnetic resonance imaging without the staff needed to operate them. If you do not understand that we must invest in doctors, engineers and biologists, not able to give adequate answers in the fight against cancer, which are becoming the leading cause of death in Italy.
Minister of Health, Ferruccio Fazio, was quick to refute:
The move does not imply any cut in either the number, nor in the type, nor the quality of service for the treatment of cancer.
We sincerely hope so. If not, it would be a blow to the fight against cancer.
REPUBLIC
Maneuver / CUTS
In the war against cancer risk in the army of doctors
Elena Dusi
June 7, 2010
facilities and staff "under threat" cuts. The alarm of Cancer: "Needless to invest in machinery, no one can use them." The average number of specialists for each department was uphill, but now the growth will stop
Of the three legs upon which the fight against cancer in Italy - instruments, drugs and white coats - is the third one that threatens to topple more with the maneuver. The measures the Minister Tremonti likely to use a blanket to shorten already reduced by the blockade of turnover in Italian hospitals, which entered into force in fact a couple of years. The nearly 1,200 medical oncologists who are working today in public in Italy may not be enough in future to cope with 2 million cancer patients and 250 thousand new cases that occur each year.
The alarm was launched two days ago by doctors AIOM (Italian Association of Medical Oncology) from the stage at the World Congress of the ASC in Chicago. But it was with the White Paper on the Structure of the peninsula that Aiom goes into the details of the problem, analyzing the means and strategies that Italy has to deal with a disease that causes three deaths and 10% of hospital admissions .
"In recent years we have made great efforts to keep up with the tools for diagnosis and therapy. But we risk not having enough staff to operate the machines, "explains John Bernard worried, secretary and chief of oncology AIOM Institute of hospitalization and medical care of a scientific Maugeri Foundation in Pavia. "We almost managed to wipe out the hope of traveling abroad. However, remain part of the migration of patients from south to north Italy. " In fact, the 230 oncology departments surveyed by the White Paper, 104 are in the north, 61 and 65 between the center and south islands. The data of the White Paper confirms that 90% of public oncology in Italy now has equipment for magnetic resonance imaging, 32% had at least a Pet for tomography and 61% with scintigraphy.
In 2003 the firm was given the MRI to 51%. The picture is less rosy for radiotherapy, present in 60% of the 230 hospitals in the fight against cancer. "But it's illogical - said Carmelo Iacono, who is president AIOM - investing in more equipment when we do not have the personnel to run them with maximum efficiency." The move could clear the fact of progress made in recent years, when the number of physicians organized to each department had risen to today's 5.5 (5.2 in Cancer) compared with 4 of 2001 (including 3.4 Cancer ).
The success of the devices is likely to be ephemeral, in an area such as the fight against cancer in which technology is evolving rapidly. And the situation could get out of hand if you look at the expenditure on medicines, an area in which consumption is difficult to compress. In 2008, calculates the White Paper, medicines against cancer have cost the NHS more than half a billion euro, 90% more than in 2004 (by comparison, the cost of staff ever in 2008 was 264 million €). "Drugs are becoming more innovative and effective but also more expensive" confirms Bernard. "Surely, however, in our country are not denied to those who need it. This is a milestone which will never give up. "
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