Italy is one of the best countries in Europe for cancer survival, as emerges from EUROCARE, a project started in 1989 under the initiative of two Italian research institutes, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori  (INT) in Milan and Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in Rome, with the participation of a large number of Cancer Registries throughout Europe. As we can read on EUROCARE website, “the aims of the study are: to