Talking about cancer is not easy!

Talking about cancer is not easy.

The mention of this word brings and evokes negative experiences not only for patients but also for relatives and friends.

The video that is already viral of the head of the oncology service in the parliamentary committee on ugliness, happened just a few weeks after the publication of the file of the doctors of the same clinic.

As such, these events should again make us reflect deeply.

To start with our culture that sees and considers such diseases, especially pathologies, as a factor of disability and blocking of daily activities.

But the undisputed priority remains the request for help presented by the patient.

Based on the basic "good sense" that the scientific preparation we possess, it remains to discuss at length the other part, the ability to communicate with patients.

For the patient with oncological pathology, information and communication are the first medications he or she comes into contact with.

Getting to know the diagnosis is the start of a long journey. Often very difficult without mentioning here the physiopathology of the disease but only the psychological aspect.

It is the approach on this aspect that often helps or worsens the patient's condition.

Personally, after many years of experience with patients with oncological pathology, I am convinced that communication and information in a gradual and, above all, humane way positively affects the approach to diagnosis and therapy.

Today, you can find dozens of analysts in television studios and social networks, omniologists who take it upon themselves to speak and give prescriptions even on delicate issues such as health or the treatment of patients with serious illnesses.

To be a good specialist, only scientific preparations and training are not enough. In medicine, therapeutic accuracy alone is not enough.

Preparing to deal with a variety of diseases and situations necessitates the preparation of doctors in some psycho-social areas.

It is the patient's legal right to be informed about his health condition, but it is our duty to communicate accurately, concisely and comprehensibly to the patient.

At a time when many of us have lost the value of speech, choosing the least traumatizing words is a sign of respect for the sick and the pain.

This is the delicate and important task of communicating in medicine.

Providing the patient with the right treatment is a non-negotiable necessity, minimizing the waiting list as much as possible, informing patients about alternative therapies and taking care of their psychological state and rehabilitation is a duty.

We doctors are used to saying what no one wants to hear.

It is precisely for this fact that we must do this through hope, faith and dignity, going beyond the cure of organic pathology.

Science, the possibility or the impossibility of a cure can go together or separately, but respect and humanity is what survives every possibility and scientific text.