The European School of Oncology (ESO). 25 years of cancer education – challenges and perspectives

The inception of the cultural and scientific project of a European School of Oncology (ESO) derived from an original and detailed vision of Umberto Veronesi. The background for the concept of an ESO was the alarming realization of American and European epidemiologists in the 1980s that a large proportion of cancer mortality resulted not from the innate aggressiveness of the various forms of neoplasm but was due to the fact that diagnoses were being made too late or treatment was unsuitable. Consequently, his conviction was that the fight against cancer could be improved, first and foremost by optimizing the trai…