We talk about thyroid treatment and research in the new double episode of "15 minutes +15 with..." the in-depth talk on the health of the Cagliari university hospital in collaboration with the Unione Sarda group, which will be broadcast live on Tuesday 6 December at 5 pm on the social networks of the Aou of Cagliari (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter), 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, readers of the Unione Sarda will find in-depth information in the newspaper's “Salute” insert .

Guests of the column , conducted by journalist Fabrizio Meloni, head of Communications and External Relations of the Aou, will be professor Pietro Giorgio Calò , director of multi-specialist surgery at the Duilio Casula Polyclinic and professor Francesco Boi , endocrinologist at Duilio Casula.

Thyroid diseases have a high frequency in Sardinia , Hashimoto's thyroiditis in particular has one of the highest incidences in the world.
There are several areas of goitrous endemic and a high frequency of hyperthyroidism and differentiated carcinomas . It is estimated that 20-25% of the Sardinian population is affected by thyroid disease.

As far as the surgical treatment of thyroid diseases is concerned, more than a thousand thyroidectomy operations are performed in Sardinia every year, with an increasing trend. 40% of these are performed at the Duilio Casula Polyclinic, of which 150 are performed on tumours.
The talk “15 minutes with…” is edited by Aou Cagliari News, the newspaper of the university hospital. An agile and simple format, it includes 15 minutes of discussions with specialists and the possibility for the public to ask questions live.