(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 8 - Italy's oncologists said Friday that
some 1,103 cancer beds had been cut in the last 10 years and
there was a full-blown crisis on cancer wards across the
country.
Every day in Italy, approximately 1,000 new cancer diagnoses are
estimated and this number tends to increase by 1% year after
year, said the president of the Italian Association of Medical
Oncology (Aiom) Francesco Perrone on the occasion of the opening
of the 26th national congress. (ANSA).