Andrea Ferrari, Teresa Perillo, Giuseppe Maria Milano, Matteo Silva, Chiara Rutigliano, Andrea Salvo, Virginia Livellara, Massimo Conte, Luca Coccoli, Elena Amore, Marta Pierobon, Francesco Vietina, Elena Pagani Bagliacca, Marco Spinelli, Maria Speranza Massei, Valentina Massetti, Elena Legnani, Ilaria Puglisi, Giulia Zucchetti, Paola Quarello
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This article describes the oncology programs developed in Italy for adolescents and young adults with cancer, with a specific focus on the local projects created in pediatric oncology centers. A common feature of such projects is the emphasis on creative and artistic activities and laboratories (involving music, photography, novel writing, fashion design, and so on) designed to give young patients innovative means of expression.This article highlights the amazing powers of adolescents involved in these projects: the power to produce beautiful things in a place that is not normally associated with the idea of beauty; the power to make their doctors smile and grasp the profound sense of life; the power to make hospitals become places for producing culture.