The bill was approved with 281 votes in favour and none against and it now moves to the Senate.
It would give cancer survivors the right not to disclose having had the pathology when they are requesting financial services or seeking to adopt a minor, among other things, under certain conditions.
When it comes to banking, financial and insurance contracts, for example, it would not be possible to request information about cancer cases from people if treatment ended 10 years previously or more.
This period would be halved in the case of people who had cancer before they were 21.
The bill would also ban financial-service institutions from obtaining this information from third parties.
The Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM) applauded the safe passage of the bill.
“It is the first fundamental step for the protection of over one million people in Italy, who have overcome cancer but continue to be considered sick by society, with discrimination in access to services such as the stipulation of insurance and mortgages, difficulties in the adoption and employment processes,” it said in a statement shared by news website, ilgiornale.it.
“We hope that the Senate will approve the law as soon as possible, because it is a battle of civilisation, which has seen patients, scientific societies and institutions at the forefront for a long time.”
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in June that the government was supporting the drive to bring in a oncological-oblivion law.
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