Tumors, Sardinian patients forced to “pilgrimage” outside the region

An unstoppable flight. It is that of cancer patients in Sardinia, forced to seek treatment far from the Island. Almost half of Sardinians affected by cancer make the decision – forced – to leave and according to Agenas every day a Sardinian woman gets on a flight or a ship to seek treatment for breast cancer elsewhere.

Not only that: the head of Surgery at the Businco in Cagliari – without a department – is forced to operate on Sardinians in a contracted facility in Verona.

A real oncological “pilgrimage” due to excessively long waiting lists and the lack of a regional surgical network.

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