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Pagani, a miracle at Tortora: a 43-year-old saved – breaking latest news

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PAGANI – At 43 he receives a prognosis of a few weeks to live, but when everything seemed lost, the surgery arrived at the Pagani hospital that saved his life. A tumor struck a young patient of Nocera Inferiore, Massimo Giordano, and was so advanced that it affected the stomach, pancreas and spleen. Judged inoperable by other surgical centers in Campania: the only hope was in chemotherapy, but the tumor mass had not reduced, rather it had caused a pulmonary embolism. Everything seemed lost. Then the decision to undergo surgery at the Pagani Oncology Center, under the knife of the team of director Massimiliano Fabozzi. The head physician personally performed the operation, which lasted five hours. The pupil of Professor Francesco Corcione removed the whole stomach, over half of the pancreas and spleen from the 43-year-old Nocerino. The patient, after seven days in the hospital, has returned home and will continue the treatment with a possibility of life lengthened in terms of years and years: chemotherapy will be able to complete the results of the operation and therefore lead to complete recovery.

The ordeal. To tell of the ordeal of the 43-year-old Nocerino is his partner, Giulia Gobja: «He had never even taken an aspirin. His work as a forklift driver and warehouse worker in a canning company in Nocera Superiore proceeded regularly. Suddenly, in 2019, he ate and was immediately satisfied. Then came the stomach pains. In ten months the situation has worsened. He had to do a gastroscopy but we had lasted the first lockdown of 2020: we did it in May, the bitter discovery ». It is the beginning of the ordeal: «We started chemotherapy at the“ Tortora ”in Pagani – remembers the 43-year-old’s partner -. We went to various hospitals, but no doctor wanted to operate on him to remove the tumor. Chemo was hoped to reduce it, but a pulmonary embolism emerged in October. Hence the emergency admission to the Nocera Inferiore hospital. Discharged from Umberto I, he went back to doing chemo ».

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The hope. In April the decision to proceed with the difficult surgery. «The situation had become dramatic – underlines Mrs. Giulia -. They had given him a few weeks of life. Thus Massimo suddenly found himself facing a mountain to climb and sometimes he wanted to give up. But I reported everything to Doctor Fabozzi, who gave me advice to give him strength ».

The operation. On the day of the difficult surgery, the patient’s companion waited outside the operating room: «When Doctor Fabozzi came out, you could see the happiness on his face for the outcome of the extremely difficult operation. My partner is now at home and begins to eat slowly. To say thank you to all of Dr. Fabozzi’s team is an understatement: he has given us back our life ».

The surgeon. A few words from the head physician of “Tortora”: «A great joy to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of a patient, whose prognosis quod vitam would have been very short if he had not undergone surgery. We are also happy to be able to provide a useful service to the territory. We achieve results such as these thanks to the dedication of the entire medical and nursing team of the operating unit of oncological surgery and the operating room of the Pagani hospital and the support of the general manager Mario Iervolino and all the strategic management of the Asl Salerno. “.

Salvatore De Napoli

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