Is dead at the age of 90, in his home in milan, professor Umberto Veronesi, a surgeon and oncologist, who has been engaged all his life in the prevention and cure of cancer. He leaves his wife, Susanna, Razon, and seven children. Immediately after graduating with 110 and praise, and with another year of studies in London, he joined the national cancer Institute. There he spent his career, from volunteer assistant to become, in '94, the scientific director. In the same year, his transition to the guide of the european Institute of oncology. He was minister of Health from 2000 to 2001 in the government Loved. A life face to face with cancer. To say that you must fight. That you can win. Umberto Veronesi has not only been a great doctor. He was a pioneer, an innovator, a philosopher, a politician, a man of peace, and a communicator. A monument with the white coat. A surgeon who has had the courage to make difficult decisions when it was not easy to make difficult choices. It was also a Great Lombard. In the conferences, congresses, summits, anywhere in the world when it comes to fighting cancer, of science and of the hospitals, inevitably associate his name to the city: Verona, Milan. An inseparable couple, who grew up around medicine, and reinforced by the thousand interests of the professor, the music, the art, literature, socialism.