Rectal cancer: diagnosis, treatment and research. We talk about it in "15 minutes with ..."

There is talk of rectal cancer in the new episode of "15 minutes with ...", the in-depth talk on health of the Cagliari university hospital in collaboration with the Unione Sarda group, which will be broadcast live on Tuesday 8 March at 5 pm on the social networks of the Aou of Cagliari (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube), on the website www.aoucagliari.it, on the Facebook page of the Unione Sarda and on www.unionesarda.it.

As always, viewers will be able to ask questions live. On Wednesday, the readers of the Unione Sarda will find in-depth information on the “Salute” insert in the newspaper.

Guests of the column, conducted by the journalist Fabrizio Meloni, Head of Communication and External Relations of the Aou, will be Professor Luigi Zorcolo, director of Colonproctological Surgery and Professor Angelo Restivo, surgeon of the Duilio Casula Polyclinic.

Colorectal cancer is the most frequent in the entire population: in Italy there are about 50 thousand new cases per year, 1,000 in Sardinia. In Italy, according to the most recent estimates of the Italian Cancer Registries Association (AIRTum) of 2019, about 15,000 new cases of rectal cancer have been diagnosed, about 8,800 in men and 6,500 in women. In Sardinia the incidence is about 70 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. In 2021, in Italy, 21,700 deaths were estimated due to colorectal cancer.

The talk "15 minutes with ..." is edited by Aou Cagliari News, the newspaper of the university hospital. Agile and simple format, it provides 15 minutes of question and answer with the specialists and the possibility for the public to ask questions live.

(Unioneonline)