Centre for Research and Studies on Procreative Health (CeRiSSaP)

Conference 2025

Fertility and pregnancy in cancer patients: utopia or reality?

Saturday, November 22, 2025

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CONFERENCE 2025

Cannabis and fertility

A conference in the name of research and awareness

A multi-voice discussion on scientific and socio-political issues promoted by the Centre for Research and Studies on Procreative Health (CeRiSSaP) and the Paul VI International Scientific Institute (ISI). Watch the interview with Prof. Maria Luisa Di Pietro and H.E. Msgr. Claudio Giuliodori

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The Centre for Research on Procreative Health

The focus of CeRiSSaP is mainly on three areas: promotion of procreative health in its various forms (enhancement of preconceptional health, promotion of appropriate lifestyles, health education), clinical research on fertility (factors influencing fertility, preservation of fertility in the presence of oncological diseases) and prevention and containment of food insecurity (malnutrition, access to food resources, prevention of nutrition-related chronic diseases). The Centre is engaged in intensive research, clinical consultancy and training, both nationally and internationally.

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WEB SERIES

5 minutes of preconception health

Promoting preconception health and preventing risk factors for fertility is now not only a duty, but also a necessity. There are 40 episodes of the web series, in which professors and experts from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and other universities participated

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Web series: 5 minutes of preconception health

The episodes of the web series, in which professors and experts from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and other universities participated, address in 5 minutes the themes, among others, of the beauty of human sexuality

and procreation the genetic causes of male and female infertility, the impact of environmental pollution on preconception health, obesity and adolescent diseases, welfare and birth rates in Italy, lifestyles, the relationship between fertility, vaccines and the Covid-19 pandemic. FIND OUT MORE

Recent publications

2025 Jul 16

Socio-psychological distress, violence, and food insecurity in women undergoing gynecological examinations: insights from a cross-sectional study of an Italian Tertiary Clinic.

Pasciuto T, Moro F, Zace D, Borzì L, Patrizi K, Di Battista R, Ciccarone F, Mascilini F, Teodorico E, Zinicola G, Di Pietro ML, Scambia G, Testa AC.

2025 Jul 1

BRCA cascade counselling and testing in Italy: current position and future directions.

Costanzo S, Godino L, De Summa S, Marvulli TM, Genuardi M, Di Pietro ML, Cordisco EL, Turchetti D, Miccoli S, Deledda G, Fantoni G, Viassolo V, Brunetti O, De Luca R, Digennaro M, Romito F, Campanella M, Patruno M. BMC Cancer.

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16 items found

Meeting
Fertility and pregnancy in cancer patients: utopia or reality?
Room 810, Policlinico Gemelli - 22 novembre 2025
Report
The different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of surrogacy
Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur Ms. Reem Alsalem 17 luglio 2025
World Health Day
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission on the future of neonatology
20 giugno 2025
World Health Day
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission on the future of neonatology
20 giugno 2025
Cattolica News
Cannabis and fertility, a conference dedicated to research and awareness
Rome Campus - 01 aprile 2025
Meeting
Cannabis and fertility
Rome Campus - 28 marzo 2025
Press
Young people and cannabis, fertility at stake
Happen - 27 marzo 2025
News
Cannabis Use: A Risk to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birth
Rome Campus - 18 marzo 2025
Meeting
Parenting culture and birth promotion
Rome Campus - 01 marzo 2025
Press
Fewer and fewer children, more and more questions. How do you get out of it?
Happen - 27 febbraio 2025
Annual Report
UN: the inexorable reduction of global fertility
World Fertility Report 2024 New York - 17 febbraio 2025
Law
Surrogacy as a universal crime
The Italian Senate has definitively approved a bill that makes surrogacy a "universal crime", punishable even if carried out abroad in a country where this practice is legal 11 dicembre 2024
Istat Report
The drama of the falling birth rate: the ISTAT Report
In 2023, the birth rate in Italy continues to decline: there was a drop in births of 3.9% compared to 2022 and 37.7% compared to 2008. 21 ottobre 2024
Annual Report
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024
The WHO's annual report focuses on analyzing progress toward eliminating hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition. 17 luglio 2024
CattolicaNews
The semiotics of anger: at the root of Gen Z's violent behavior
Could mismanagement and how anger is triggered be at the root of Generation Z's violent behavior? 12 gennaio 2024
Seminar
The semiotics of anger: at the root of Gen Z's violent behavior
The program of the seminar Rome Campus - 11 gennaio 2024

Fertility and pregnancy in cancer patients: utopia or reality?

Cannabis and fertility

The Centre for Research on Procreative Health

5 minutes of preconception health

Web series: 5 minutes of preconception health

Recent publications

News & Events

Fertility and pregnancy in cancer patients: utopia or reality?

The different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of surrogacy

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission on the future of neonatology

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission on the future of neonatology

Cannabis and fertility, a conference dedicated to research and awareness

Cannabis and fertility

Young people and cannabis, fertility at stake

Cannabis Use: A Risk to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birth

Parenting culture and birth promotion

Fewer and fewer children, more and more questions. How do you get out of it?

UN: the inexorable reduction of global fertility

Surrogacy as a universal crime

The drama of the falling birth rate: the ISTAT Report

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024

The semiotics of anger: at the root of Gen Z's violent behavior

The semiotics of anger: at the root of Gen Z's violent behavior