Attivecomeprima is the leading Italian helpful organisation providing global support for women affected by cancer. It was created in 1973 within the Istituto dei Tumori of Milan with the aim of improving the quality of life of women affected by breast cancer.
The organisation has carried out its activity in its historic headquarters in via Livigno, Milan, since 1983. It was founded through the efforts of Ada Burrone and surgeon Professor Pietro Bucalossi, director of the Institute at that time.
Attivecomeprima has been and currently is a point of reference for people with cancer, their families and the specialists interested in its work.

Ada Burrone

Notwithstanding the progress made in the last thirty years in the cancer research and the resulting benefits in terms of quality of life and life expectancy, cancer is still one of the most feared diseases, the one that generates the greatest fears in the public’s mind. People with cancer are exposed to the fear of pain, death and an unknown future. Other resources besides those of medicine are therefore required to ensure an adequate response to this existential condition.
For this reason, ever since its founding Attivecomeprima has provided, in alliance with the medical and scientific communities, an environment for developing new energies and channeling them into life instead of fear, independently of individual physical conditions and timescales.