Antonio Bolognese • Luciano Izzo

2009

My sincere and heartfelt thanks to the President and to the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Surgery for having assigned me the task of compiling this report on “Surgery in Multimodal Management of Solid Tumors”. In a time when the most recent epidemiologic research indicates an increase of about 50% in cancer over the next 10 years, surgery continues to be the most efficacious treatment of solid tumors in terms of recovery, while its combination with other treatments improves survival curves especially in the advanced forms.