26 October 2022
October is World Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Throughout this month of October we will present a series of short videos about the Breast Unit's clinical activities and its research projects.
Accessing the so-called “metaverse” through augmented reality headsets connected to the internet can help breast cancer surgeons to locate a patient’s tumour, during surgery, by virtually superposing the patient’s medical images onto her physical body lying on the operating room table, explains Pedro Gouveia, surgeon at the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Foundation. With this in view, the Unit is already building a digital surgery lab, where artificial intelligence and computer vision will combine to give rise to the breast cancer surgery of the future.
