(Adnkronos) - Il Centro Congressi Roma Eventi-Fontana di Trevi ha fatto da cornice alla quarta edizione del Convegno Nazionale organizzato da Ail, Associazione italiana contro leucemie, linfomi e mieloma, su ‘Curare è prendersi cura. Impatto ambientale e rischio sanitario, benessere e stili di vita’. Un’importante occasione di approfondimento multidisciplinare su ricerche e tematiche all’avanguardia dedicate alla relazione tra impatto ambientale e rischio sanitario, con l'obiettivo di inquadrare un approccio multisettoriale per incoraggiare politiche e strategie per la tutela della salute come fondamentale diritto dell'individuo.
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00:00An important opportunity for multidisciplinary deepening on research and avant-garde themes
00:10dedicated to the relationship between environmental impact and health risk, in order to frame a multisectoral approach
00:18to encourage policies and strategies for the protection of health as a fundamental right of the individual.
00:24This is the intention of the fourth edition of the National Convention organized by the Italian Association
00:30against Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma, held in Rome and entitled
00:34Curing is taking care, environmental impact and health risk, well-being and lifestyles.
00:40In Italy, in fact, about half a million people live with a blood tumor
00:45and every year more than 30,000 new cases are diagnosed, but thanks to drugs
00:50they have a life expectancy similar to those who are not ill.
00:54These cases have a genesis that naturally has to do with the environment,
01:01also has to do with the increased life expectancy, but they have to do with the environment.
01:07Water, land and air are vehicles of pollution today so serious
01:17that they are the cause of cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases
01:21and, above all, for what concerns us, also rheumatological diseases.
01:25Working on this front today is essential.
01:29Prevention, unfortunately, is the seed of health activities.
01:34Despite all the advances from a therapeutic point of view,
01:38in the last five decades the incidence of lymphomas has significantly doubled.
01:42What is due to the incidence? It is not possible to establish exactly,
01:46but certainly environmental pollution, the disproportionate use of chemical substances
01:51that can end up in the subsurface, in the sea, the pollution of seawater,
01:57clearly leads to plastics and microplastics.
02:01There are so many chemical products that can end up on our table
02:06or that we breathe that lead to a possible increase
02:11in the development of neoplastic diseases in general, but above all rheumatological,
02:16especially if they are accompanied by alterations and mutations that we have,
02:20that we do not know, that can be altered precisely by the use of chemical substances.
02:24Medical treatments allow a better quality of life and, in some cases,
02:28also healing in the field of leukemia.
02:30These progresses do not stop, however, a substantial increase in the audience
02:34that suffers from these pathologies.
02:36In fact, we are talking about diseases of the century,
02:38but it is related to the era of Anthropocene.
02:40These are human activities that have a place in being through the production of energy
02:45from fossil sources, through industrialized agriculture,
02:49through the pollution of the air, water and soil,
02:54which determine significant impacts not only for people,
02:58but also in the environment in which we live.
03:01Therefore, the theme today is to be able to make appropriate policies
03:06regarding these polluting sources,
03:09in order to determine an effective reduction
03:13that is able to limit the consequent health risk,
03:18and on the other hand, which is also the theme of today's conference,
03:21is how we, as citizens, through appropriate lifestyles,
03:25can try to avoid or reduce the health risk due to the environmental impact.