In Italy, a law was passed on Wednesday evening giving cancer patients a “right to be forgotten”. In concrete terms, cancer survivors who have not had a relapse in ten years no longer have to provide information about their previous illness to banks and insurance companies.
In the future, the data will only be collected anonymously for statistics. This means that the information that a particular person has recovered from cancer can no longer appear anywhere, Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said.
The ten-year period is shortened by half if the disease occurred before the age of 21. Recovered cancer patients face numerous challenges in Italy, as they are more likely to be denied loans or insurance and even excluded from adoption procedures.
Meloni thanks all parties “who made this possible”
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomed the unanimous approval of the bill. “It is a law that the Government has fully supported and which will end the humiliating and unfair discrimination against people recovering from cancer. I thank all the political forces that made it possible to achieve this goal today,” said Meloni.
Source: Krone
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