Dr. Paola Ferrari graduated in Medicine and Surgery at Pisa University in 1995 (full marks), specialized in Internal Medicine in 2000, and holds a PhD in Medical Physiopathology and Pharmacology. She works as a medical oncologist at Unit of Oncology 1, Department of Oncology, New Technologies and Transplantations, University of Pisa. Clinical activity: follow-up and therapy of cancer patients, mainly breast cancer patients. Principal fields of research: breast and gastrointestinal cancer follow-up and therapy, breast cancer biomarkers and prognostic factors, cancer immunology, circulating tumor cells, and cancer stem cells. She is the author/co-author of about 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She regularly serves as a reviewer for international oncology journals.