College of primary oncologists, Paolo Tralongo new president

Anticipating the transformation of oncology by intervening in two key areas, organizational and individual, and continue on the tracks traced on issues such as humanization in oncology, with a School that will continue even in the coming years. These are the key points of the next two-year work term of the new president of the Italian College of primary hospital oncologists (Cipomo), Paolo Tralongo, who will remain in office for two years. Sicilian, 66 years old, graduated in medicine in Catania in 1984, specialization four years later, experiences at the Institute Tumors in Milan and in the United States, he was deputy head of Catania until 1998. Today he directs the oncology department of the ASP of Syracuse and the Medical Oncology Department of the Hospital Umberto I, always in Syracuse. "Oncology is experiencing an extraordinary moment transformation, I would almost say epochal", explains Tralongo. "The early diagnosis and the availability of new active ingredients have, like never before in these years, revolutionized a disease before with a predominantly 'acute' expression, transforming it into a chronic and increasingly curable condition, radically changing its natural history." As president Cipomo will focus on the organizational areas and individual. "The first to start a model that considers the transition hospital territory and promotes pathways rehabilitation in a multidisciplinary sense", while the secondly, it concerns the evolution of the role of the doctor and the relationship with the patient: "It should be a physiological act and natural, but which too often turns into an act pathological and degenerates into conflict". A change is needed "for to promote an authentic cultural transformation, which brings back to the fundamental idea that the doctor is never 'against' the patient". Essential elements to protect patients from potential digital health and AI border crossings: "Very valuable tools how dangerous if poorly managed. Themes that, together with the 'Humanities in Oncology', our school of humanization for oncologists have engaged Cipomo in recent years and which we will continue to provide content."