Elisa Ramundo: “After the tumor, I no longer trusted life. The disease didn't kill my dream "

Elisa Ramundo

, 44 ​​years old from Padua, is a top manager in the legal sector.

Her love for her profession led her to the United States. 

At 29,

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Elisa is currently in Rome, she works in a law firm in the city and is planning her move to the United States to attend a

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Elisa initially underestimates the pain in the abdomen and blood in the stool but at some point the symptoms intensify and the colonoscopy reveals colon cancer.

"I never smoked a cigarette or drank alcohol, I was always careful and there were no other cases in the family", she says- "It was June 2008, I received the diagnosis with my sister, while she was crying I asked the doctor the timing of the intervention, because

”.

“It was a tiring journey - she confesses -

.

One day I asked my mother:

". 

Due to her illness, Elisa is forced to undergo

and

at the San Raffele hospital in Milan.

She undergoes

, precisely because of her young age and particularly aggressive cancer.

“

” She says moved and she says “

, it's not all downhill.

I was lucky, it is true, but

.

Instead we must continue to trust in life and to bet in life, to invest ".

And he launches an appeal: “We need to talk about cancer and research to make this disease more and more curable.

We all invest in our future, even 50 cents, even 1 euro is the best investment for the future ".

Today Elisa treasures her experience and is grateful for the research, for the progress that has given her a new existence.

The experience of cancer is always present but she, with strength and a lot of courage, she did not give up on her biggest dream, America.

Rai and the Airc Foundation against cancer

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From 6 to 13 November 2022 the

"Days of Research" is back, involving TV, radio, web and social networks.

Thanks to the

it will be possible to collect

to invest in

for the treatment of cancer and in training and specialization programs for

our country. 

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