Franco Di Mare Announces His Battle with a Rare Cancer on 'Che Tempo che Fa'

Franco Di Mare has announced on 'Che Tempo che Fa' that he is seriously ill. The journalist, speaking remotely with Fabio Fazio, talked for the first time about the cancer affecting him, mesothelioma: "This little tube running across my face is connected to an automatic respirator and allows me to breathe forcefully, but it also allows me to be here to tell, to talk to you. I've contracted mesothelioma, a very nasty cancer, linked to the presence of asbestos in the air. It is contracted by inhaling asbestos particles, without realizing it. It has a very long self-preservation time, and when it manifests, it's too late." Mesothelioma, what is the rare cancer (related to asbestos) Franco Di Mare suffers from: symptoms and treatments. Franco Di Mare, the announcement of the disease on 'Che Tempo che Fa'. Di Mare, 68 years old, added in a faint voice: "Saying that this ends hope is not true, because science is always advancing. I am here to celebrate a solution that could be discovered, we hope there is a solution and that it is not so far away." Fabio Fazio, moved, recalled that today (April 28) is the day of workers victims of asbestos and presents 'The words to say it. The war outside and inside of us', the book by Franco Di Mare, Rai journalist, who was also the director of Rai3, published by Sem. For the disease, says the journalist, there is a need for the idea of community around the sick, "when someone stops to help others, there the community of humans is born." In the book, his life story is intertwined with the experience of the moment and his terrible disease. "I've 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, welcomed with a big applause. The attack on Rai. Fazio then asked Di Mare if there is regret for those who have disappeared. And in his answer, the journalist does not mince words: "The whole Rai, all the management groups. I understand that there are trade union and legal reasons, I was asking for the service record, the list of places where I have been to know what could be done. I can't understand the absence on a human level, people I used to address informally who have become tied to the phone. I find only one adjective: it's disgusting."