2024-09-08 08:29:44
08 September 2024 | 10.29
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Two years away from the spotlight for him The lung tumor is large and difficult to work on. It has shock exposure Luca Carboni who, in a long interview with Walter Veltroni for ‘Il Corriere della Sera’, talks about what he has to face from the date of the diagnosis, which arrives in March 2022, following the X-ray for “some of the cough that is not do. “don’t go”.
“I am recording a new album, I have already said ten songs – said Carboni – I have planned the album and then the tour. Instead, in a few minutes, everything changed. From the selection of songs I moved to a selection of therapies to survive”.
“The system is large, it is difficult to work. The oncology staff of Sant’Orsola – led by the chief physician Professor Andrea Ardizzoni, with the collaboration of the pulmonologist Piero Candoli and the surgeon Piergiorgio Solli – Immediately begin intensive chemotherapy treatment. The tumor shrunk a lot and in August was allowed to have an operation to remove it. Fortunately there were no metastases and after surgery we continued with immunotherapy. After two years I can say that I have technology even if, with this type of illness, this word has a delicate meaning.”
Carboni appreciates how “this experience brought me in contact with many people. I went to oncology, I have lived the stories of many patients. Cancer is not an individual experience, but a collective – you surrender – You cannot feel recovery if not. heal the other, the one you have by your side when you receive his fellowship in recent years, I have prayed for myself, but also for those who have the same path as a friend of mine from the island of Elba who discovered the same mind as me but did not.
“From the news, from the x-ray and, above all, from the radio, I am sure that I have some time. I thought about death, for the first time, as a concrete possibility – he admitted -. But I owe to medical technology the return, soon, of reasonable hope. I don’t believe it, I think it’s a special comfort, yet I cling to the glow of that light. I thought of two things: that I have to trust the doctors and leave myself to fate, fight in my own way.” And Carboni also found unexpected and special abilities within himself. “I want to live and I want to feel, one day, ‘healed’. I tolerated the chemo, delivered in large doses, well, also thanks to the advice of my homeopathic doctor – he continued -. And the same with immunotherapy. Finally I went through the amazing experience without feeling pain. I did not give in to despair, which was still with me, I fought. I stopped smoking, I walked a lot“.
Now it’s time to look to the future. “Now I want to open the doors of my life, to find people again. I will look again at the songs I was recording when they discovered my tumor, I will add others and then maybe I will do metal -a journey. The last is in 2019, I need to rediscover what, with the landscapes, gives me the strength to fight the disease, “he explained. “When I return to the stage, music The first one I will do will be ‘Primavera’. It is the song of the season that we have been waiting for, that comes back different every time. I would like the first date to be in Bologna, my city”.
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