- The Palermo oncologist Angelo Di Leo died
- He was 58 years old
- He was considered one of the foremost experts in breast cancer
- Great condolences in Palermo and Prato, where the doctor worked
The Palermo oncologist Angelo Di Leo died, he was 58 years old.
The news has thrown the world of medicine into despair.
The condolences of the Medici Order of Palermo
“Angelo Di Leo’s death is very sad news that no doctor would like to hear. An illness has taken away a great man of science, the first Italian winner of the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award 2019’ that the ESMO (European Society of Clinical Oncology) awarded him for his extraordinary career dedicated to training young people and research, especially on breast cancer and personalized therapies. Thanks to him and the passion of some fleeing brains returned from abroad, the Oncology Center of Prato today is an important point of reference for cancer care and research. The family, the profession, health care, medicine, the Order and all its members pay a very high toll for this loss. It was a great honor Angelo, to meet you and have you in the common house of doctors in Palermo ”. With these words, the president of the Palermo Order of Doctors Toti Amato and the Governing Council cling with pain to the grave mourning that yesterday hit the family of Angelo di Leo, an internationally renowned oncologist, enrolled in the Palermo Medical Association, considered one of the leading experts in breast cancer in the world.
Who was Angelo Di Leo
As stated in La Repubblica, who graduated in the Sicilian capital in 1988, specializing in medical oncology in Pavia, Di Leo had carried out his internship at the Cancer Institute of Milan. In 1996 he went to work in the medical oncology division of the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, where since 2000 he had held the position of associate director and medical director of the Breast research group. In 2003 he returned to Italy, in Prato, as director of oncology at the Santo Stefano hospital. Last April he left his position to take on the role of coordinator of the health company for the development of programs for clinical research.
Condolence was also expressed by the mayor of Prato Matteo Biffoni who remembers him as a “point of reference for medicine, he has dedicated all his energies to cancer treatments and research. Together with the Pitigliani Foundation he laid the foundations for the birth of an oncology center in Prato “