Maria João Cardoso, coordinator of the Champalimaud Foundation’s Breast Unit Surgical team, and also in charge of the Cinderella Project, developed in this Unit - which recently received five million euros in European funding. In this video, she explains how important it is, nowadays, to consider not only the medical outcomes, but also the aesthetic aspects, when it comes to submitting women to breast surgery.

More on this project here.

Leonor Matos, Medical Oncologist at the Champalimaud Foundation’s Breast Unit, presents here the NEOPROGRAM, a project that will soon be launched in the unit, which was designed for patients who are going to receive chemotherapy or hormone therapy with curative intent. Its goal is to evaluate the benefits of different types of physical exercise for the patients’ quality of life and for tumour responses to the treatments.

In this video, Berta Sousa, an oncologist at the Champalimaud Foundation’s Breast Unit and one of the people in charge of the BOUNCE project in Portugal, talks about the results already obtained concerning the factors that influence resilience to the diagnosis and treatments in breast cancer patients.  She also evokes a study of the impact of treatments on cognitive function, specifically performed by the Breast Unit, whose results will be presented shortly.

What distinguishes the Champalimaud Foundation’s Breast Unit from other units in the same field? In this short video, Fátima Cardoso, who leads the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Foundation, answers this question.

October is World Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Fátima Cardoso, who leads the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Foundation, presents here a series of short videos that will be published all through this month of October about the Breast Unit, its clinical activities and its research projects.

The CaixaResearch Health Research Contest 2022 has selected 33 promising new biomedical and health projects promoted by research centres and universities in Spain and Portugal. Once again affirming that the “la Caixa” Foundation, in collaboration with BPI, supports projects of excellence that can have a positive impact on the health of citizens. 

Within this framework, it has allocated a total of 23.1 million euros to such projects – 20 Spanish and 13 Portuguese – that will be developed over the next three years. 

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