it is caught by breathing asbestos particles”

Franco Di Mare announced to What’s the weather like of being seriously ill. The journalist, in connection with Fabio Faziospoke for the first time about the cancer that hit him, the mesothelioma: «This little tube that runs over my face is connected to an automatic respirator and allows me to breathe forcedly, but it also allows me to be here to tell stories, to talk to you. I got mesothelioma, a very bad tumor, linked to the presence of asbestos in the air. You get it by breathing in asbestos particles without realizing it. It has a very long self-preservation time and when it manifests itself it is too late.”

Mesothelioma, what is the rare tumor (linked to asbestos) from which Franco Di Mare suffers: symptoms and treatments

Franco Di Mare, the announcement of the disease on “Che Tempo che Fa”

Di Mare, 68, added in a small voice: «To say that this is where hope ends is not true, because science always moves forward. I’m here to celebrate a solution that could be discovered, let’s hope that there is a solution and that it isn’t that far away.”

Moved by Fabio Fazio, who recalled that today (28 April) is the day of workers who are victims of asbestos and presents ”The words to say it. The war outside and inside us”, the book by Franco Di Mare, Rai journalist, who was also director of Rai3, which is published by Sem.

For illness, says the journalist, there needs to be the idea of ​​community around the patient, “when someone stops to help others, the human community is born there”. The book intertwines his life story with the experience of the moment and his terrible illness. «I have had a beautiful life and the memories I have are full of life. I’m sorry to find out now, but it’s not too late, my referee hasn’t blown the whistle yet”, he says, greeted by great applause.

The attack on Rai

Fazio then asked Di Mare if there is any regret for those who disappeared. And in his response the journalist does not mince words: «All of Rai, all the management groups. I understand that there are union and legal reasons, I was asking for the service record, the list of places where I have been to find out what could be done. I can’t understand the absence on a human level, people I used to address as informally who became connected over the phone. I find only one adjective: è repugnant».

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