GENOVA (ITALPRESS) – Liguria focuses on health prevention free and free access as a model and investment for the future. After the birth of the project “Woman in Health – Open Week-end 2026”, the program dedicated to women’s health, which throughout March offers to Genoa free visits and consultations without reservation and direct access, also takes the start of an initiative dedicated to male prevention. “Man in Health – Open Week-end 2026” was presented today, a project designed to raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis and urological prevention. During the dedicated days it will be possible to make free urological visits, without reservation, with any indications for diagnostic insights if considered necessary by specialists.
“It is my firm intention to institutionalize open days of this kind, perhaps once a month, but in a cadenzato way – explains Massimo Nicolò, Councillor for the Health of the Liguria Region -. It is important to sensitize all people, but above all to identify early problems that have not yet developed. The only way is to do a prevention campaign with targeted visits. Unfortunately we still consider prevention as a cost, it is actually an investment that will give results on the long term. What we perceive now we manage it much better in terms of the survival of the person and also in terms of savings, which are not to be put in the background, than what we should have spent on an oncological disease identified late”.
Today at the San Martino polyclinic hospital in Genoa the first day dedicated to women, with more than 100 patients in the queue for free senological visits. Next week will be at the Villa Scassi, then the Galliera on the last weekend of March. The three poles are recently merged into the Metropolitan Hospitaller Company. “The hospital is a place of care, but it must also be an open place that contributes to prevention and education in lifestyles – says General Manager Monica Calamai. Screening is made of two moments: the organized ones but also the spontaneous ones that allow to give answers to a population with sometimes submerged needs, which awakens thanks also to these initiatives. We will not limit ourselves to this.”.
April, then, will be the month dedicated to urological prevention with appointments to San Martino, Villa Scassi and Voltri hospital. The first open weekend visits will be completely free of charge. If, during the visit, the need for further clinical or diagnostic investigations emerges, patients will be taken into account by the professionals of the structures involved and addressed to the planned care and deepening paths, which will follow the normal scheme of sharing in expenditure, except for exemptions from the ticket. The prostate cancer is among the most frequent neoplasms in the male population. In Liguria there are about 1,000 new cases each year. Prognosis is generally favorable: over 90% of patients live five years after diagnosis. The healing rate is very high and, even in the presence of relapses, the disease can often be managed as a chronic pathology with a long life expectancy. For this reason, the number of people living with a prior diagnosis is particularly significant: in Liguria there are over 12,000 prevalent cases, a significant figure for the organization of therapeutic paths and follow-up programs.
The testicle tumor is much less frequent, but it is an important pathology, especially in the younger bands of the male population. In Liguria there are about 50 new cases per year. Also in this case, prognosis is extremely favorable: over 90% of patients heal permanently thanks to the available therapies, which mainly include surgery and chemotherapy. Currently in Liguria about 1,500 patients with early diagnosis of testicle cancer are followed. In the vast majority of cases they are healed people, but they still need periodic checks in the context of clinical follow-up.
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