The Department of Pathology endorses and maintains the founding principles of the IEO (central role of the patient, continuous improvement of diagnostic and therapeutic activities, regard of the human resources, fostering of clinical and translational research, international collaboration, educational activities, safety in the working place, technological advancement), and provides all the services for the diagnosis of the diseases and for informing the local and systemic treatments in a timely fashion, ensuring the best possible accuracy in the assessment of all the clinically useful prognostic and predictive parameters. This is granted by the involvement of all the staff members in the definition of the departmental objectives, in the continuous educational processes, and in the monitoring of the clinical and research outputs as compared to defined standards.

The vision of the Department is to achieve and maintain the status of reference laboratory for the neopastic diseases and clinical research within the National and International scientific community.