"In Italy there are 400 thousand new cases of cancer and 180 thousand premature deaths due to cancer every year. This figure is not evenly and randomly distributed over the territory: in fact, there is a concentration in territories subject to environmental pollution. According to data from the latest EIONET and EEA report (2022), with 59,641 premature deaths, after France and Germany, Italy is the country with the highest number of deaths in Europe attributable to environmental pollution, particularly air pollution and from exposure to electromagnetic fields." The data emerged in Rome at the third edition of the National Conference "Curare è prendersi cura" (“Curing is caring”) organized by AIL (Italian Association against Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma). "The sixth 'Sentieri' report," the experts pointed out, "that is, the national epidemiological study of territories and settlements exposed to risk from pollution promoted by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, which analyzes the health status, hospitalization and mortality of the population present on the Italian territory with regard to 46 contaminated sites of national and regional interest, located in different parts of the country, from the Po basin to inland areas of central and southern Italy, records 1,409 pediatric-adolescent deaths and 999 among young adults at the 46 sites analyzed". They then analyzed the possible causes responsible for the rising mortality from cancer in Italy, a trend that has also begun to grow globally in recent decades. Cancers are, in fact, the second leading cause of death in the world, with Italy being precisely among the countries in Europe with the highest number of premature deaths attributable to pollution.