Cancer: fear must be overcome

“It’s official, you can say cancer”. No fear, therefore, and no kind of awe or embarrassment. «Speaking about it freely helps us to exorcise it, to get rid of those superstitions that in some way are children of fear. And fear is of no use against cancer»Says the Prof. Michelino De Laurentiis, oncologist at the National Cancer Institute G. Pascale Foundation in Naples, as well as the protagonist of the fifth video of the campaign Can we say cancer? of Pfizer Oncology Italia.

Once again, with the inevitable dose of kind and original humor by The Jackal, the video aims to authoritatively instill that dose of courage and confidence to face the disease in a conscious way. Starting from the observance of some precautions and behaviors such as those suggested by the European Code against Cancer. «It is a series of rules that help us prevent the disease and, above all, take care of ourselves. For example, eating well, doing regular physical activity and certainly participating in cancer screening ». Even in Covid time.

The pandemic, in fact, has done nothing but discourage regular checkups, which are essential for prevention. Yet, continues prof. De Laurentiis, “even in this period it is enough to take all the necessary precautions and go regularly to screening and control visits, follow the treatments and therapies, especially the innovative ones, because the advantages obtained are much higher than the risk of getting infected».

No fear, therefore, but only courage and certainties. Those given by scientific research which, even in a complex moment like the present one, never stops running, offering increasingly avant-garde treatment prospects. “The only risk we run is in being afraid is not to take care of ourselves which instead is the keystone ”concludes De Laurentiis.

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