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M. Adamo

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Italian cancer figures, report 2014: Prevalence and cure of cancer in Italy

2015

This Report intends to estimate the total number of people still alive in 2010 after cancer diagnosis in Italy, regardless of the time since diagnosis, and to project these estimates to 2015. This study is also aimed to estimate the number of already cured cancer patients, whose mortality rates have become undistinguishable from that of the general population of the same age and sex.The study took advantage of the information from the AIRTUM database, which included 29 Cancer Registries (covering 21 million people, 35% of the Italian population). A total of 1,624,533 cancer cases diagnosed between 1976 and 2009 contributed to the study. For each registry, the observed prevalence was calcula…

Aged 80 and overMaleMedicine (all)Aged; Aged 80 and over; Female; Humans; Italy; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasms; Prevalence; Registries; Survival RateSocio-culturaleMiddle AgedSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataSurvival RateItalyNeoplasms80 and overPrevalenceHumanscancer prevalence cancer incidence cancer in ItalyFemaleRegistriesAged
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Whatsapp messenger as a tool for the multidisciplinary management in everyday clinical practice

2017

Introduction & Objectives Communication between doctors is traditionally conducted by written clinical charts. Mobile health is becoming an integral part of modern healthcare system, improving accessibility and quality of medical care. Recent papers suggest that an increasing number of doctors are using in their practice mobile tools to communicate clinical informations (1,2). The aim of our study was to verify the adoption of WhatsApp Messenger in everyday clinical practice to obtain a real-time multidisciplinary collaboration among medical centers located in different areas of the city. Material & Methods In January 2016 a WhatsApp Messenger group was created among 25 specialists:…

New technologies Urological tumors multimedia multidisciplinary managementSettore MED/24 - Urologia
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