Health: here are the winners of the competition “Those good girls” on breast cancer

Great success for appointments promoted by the Beautiful After Breast Cancer Italia Onlus on the occasion of the V International Day for Mammary Reconstruction: the Braday 2016 (Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day) has in fact seen a succession of events and information proposals to which they joined Many Italian hospitals throughout the boot, in particular in Rome, Palermo, Bologna, Milan, Forlì, Modena, Verona and Trento.

Surgical reconstruction is a possibility, as well as a right, which, however, only a third of the patients takes into consideration: “ the breast reconstruction – said the prof.Ssa Marzia Salgarello, president of the Beautiful After Breast Cancer Italia Onlus – Today it is an integral part of the care of mammary neoplasms. Despite this, only a lesser percentage of women subjected to mastectomy performs reconstruction (about 30%). For this reason, the goal of the Braday and the Beautiful After Breast Cancer Onlus Italia is to inform those who face the disease that reconstruction falls within the services of the national health system and can also be carried out in the operating office during the tumor removal;.

This is reconstructive, non -aesthetic surgery, is a right for patients and our duty to let it know, so that they can also reconstruct their lives ”.

A rebirth that can also pass through writing, as a form of therapy, as demonstrated by the national literary competition “those good girls ” of which the ten winners were announced during the BraDay:

– “Butterfly wings” by Francesco face

– “Journey inside me” by Valentina Borsella

– “The end of a myth” by Veronica Corporalongo

– “Fluid alliteration” by Armando Federici

– “Raw” by Silvia Fenu

– “The dolls never get sick” by Nina Lorenzo

– “Suddenly” by Roberta Mauri

– “A cruel God” by Maria Rosa Previti

– “Two hearts” by Samantha Terrasi

– “Moments like snowmen to the equator” by Gloria Venturini

Received from all over Italy, the ten stories tell of men, women, doctors and patients of various ages who, in first person or indirectly, have crossed the pain and fear of breast cancer, and in some cases also the rebirth.

Conceived by the prof.Ssa Adriana Cordova, full professor of plastic surgery of the University of Palermo and elected president of the Sicpre (Italian Society of reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery), and promoted by the Beautiful After Breast Cancer Italia Onlus, the competition has entrusted the selection of the songs To a quality jury, composed of the journalist Tiziana Lo Porto, the director Costanza Quatriglio and the journalist and pop artist Elvira Seminara. The ten winning stories will be published in the coming months by the Leima publishing house in the anthology “ those good girls ”.

The announcement of the winners took place during a connection between the Braday in Rome and that of Palermo. During the Roman meeting, organized by the Beautiful ABC Italia Onlus in collaboration with the University Polyclinic Foundation a. Gemini in the Hall of the Polyclinic, and presented by Maria Concetta Mattei, the actor Massimo Wertmüller gave birth to a moment of great emotion by reading some songs taken from the selected texts, in the presence of some winners: Samantha Terrasi, Armando Federici and Veronica Corpolongo.

During the event “signs of signs” was projected, the short film signed by the director Agnese Rizzello on the commitment of the Beautiful and on the experience of the disease and, they attended the Dr. Enrico Gampedri (General Manager), the Prof. Riccardo Masetti (Director of the Operational Unit of Breast Surgery) and the Prof.Ssa Marzia Salgarello (director of the plastic surgery operating unit), and many guests, including Rita Dalla Chiesa, the prof.SSA Luceta Scaraffia journalist and historical and the prof.SSA Chiara Palazzini, pedagogist and counselor.

Everything ended with a very cheerful and colorful moment, but also of great emotion. The Hall of the Polyclinic turned into the catwalk for very special models: twenty -five patients paraded with the clothes of the stylist Gianfranco Venturi, among the applause of a packed and excited room.

Beautiful After Breast Cancer Italia Onlus Foundation

The Beautiful After Breast Cancer Foundation, founded in 2011 by the famous Belgian plastic surgeon Phillip Blondeel and chaired in Italy by the Head of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit of the Gemelli Polyclinic, Prof.Ssa Marzia Salgarello, is an international multidisciplinary organization whose goal is to help patients who have had breast cancer diagnoses to reconstruct their existence.

The non -profit organization is dedicated to the dissemination of information regarding breast cancer and breast reconstruction, committing to transmit to medical personnel, patients and media the importance of this choice and well -being after a diagnosis of cancer.