World Cancer Day at Pancreas, Rivizzigno: "Ten Years Ago It Was a Black Hole. Today the Survival Rate Is 13%, but They Serve Specialised Hospitals"

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A complex tumor with prognosis often inauspicious, but for which increase the cure and survival, thanks, also, to the advent of the "Pancreas Unit" , albeit only in Lombardy. On the World Cancer Day at Pancreas, Piero Rivizzigno, president of the Association Code Viola, independent association that helps, informs and directs patients who have had a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, invites to a cautious optimism: "Ten years ago this tumor was a bl…