ENRICO CASSANO

“MAN FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS” Award

The pain of the disease looks nobody in the face. A terrible truth with which Professor Enrico Cassano, oncologist and director of the Division of Breast Radiology at the IEO in Milan, collides on a daily basis.

The invisible and ruthless enemy who has been fighting for years has a very specific name. It is called breast cancer and, in Italy alone, it is estimated that it can affect at least one in nine women over a lifetime. In this context, Dr. Cassano's tireless commitment is part of a struggle that he has always lived at the forefront, reconciling the medical profession with the activity of member of the Scientific Committee for mammography screening, and turning on the spotlight on the importance of prevention. and early diagnosis.

And if it is true that the most grueling battles must be fought from start to finish, Dr. Cassano has never spared himself even in terms of humanitarian action by collaborating on the field with the Rava Foundation of Haiti as a voluntary scientific coordinator of the diagnosis project. and breast cancer treatment.

A fundamental contribution, his. The concrete contribution of a man aligned with all those women who, in the ferocious progress of the disease, do not have access to adequate medical care.

Text by Elettra Fiorini