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What is needed to win the battle against cancer

Prof. Franco Cavalli
Scientific Director, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, S. Giovanni Hospital Bellinzona, CH

Can the battle against cancer be lost? From a diagnostic and therapeutic point of view, the progress made in recent years has been irrefutable. The outlook is less rosy when considering the global mortality rate, in the light of the distribution of the most effective and advanced resources used to fight the disease. 75% of anticancer drugs are consumed in Europe, North America and Japan, while as many as 30 other countries in the world do not even have a single radiotherapy device.

TAVI is here to stay and should be applied to a wider audience

Prof. Francesco Romeo
Head, Dept. of Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology
Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome

The recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress, held in Rome, specified the role of TAVI (percutaneous aortic valve replacement) in the treatment of degenerative aortic stenosis. Currently almost all percutaneous interventions are performed on inoperable patients by cardiac surgeons. According to Prof. Romeo, the enormous know-how accumulated over the years by interventional cardiologists allows them to envisage extending TAVI to categories of patients with minor contraindications to surgery.

Tissue Engineering and Cellular Replacement in Diabetes Treatment

Prof. Camillo Ricordi
Head, Diabetes Research Institute, Miami
Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of Miami

Islet transplants offer similar results to those of other organ transplants in terms of long-term outcomes, although there is still a need for life-long assumption of anti-rejection drugs. New strategies for more effective diabetes treatments focus on engineering a mini-endocrine pancreas in the abdominal cavity, using 3D scaffolds and local protective systems, in order to avoid systemic anti-rejection drugs.

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