At the Champalimaud Colorectal Cancer Conference, last February, Gina Brown, from the Imperial College London, questioned the validity of the current staging strategy for colon cancer. Indeed, research shows that lymph nodes are not the main culprit in colon cancer spread, and can actually be a sign that the patient’s immune system is fighting back. 

Coordinated by Professor Ana Santos Almeida, principal investigator of a translational laboratory at the GIMM Foundation - Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM-CARE), this study will take place at the Champalimaud Foundation, in collaboration with Dr. José Azevedo, surgeon of the Colorectal Cancer Group of the Digestive Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Center, and at the Hospital de Santa Maria, with the participation of oncologists Professor Luís Costa and Dr. André Mansinho.

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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and it brings with it significant emotional, social, economic, and public health challenges.
Prevention is a crucial tool in the fight against cancer. By identifying risks early, it not only saves lives and reduces suffering but also helps conserve valuable healthcare resources, both human and financial.

The patient has multiple myeloma, one of the most common haematological (blood) cancers worldwide.

In patients under the age of 70, the first-line treatment for this cancer includes harvesting the patient's own cells, known as “haematopoietic progenitor cells”, intensive chemotherapy and, finally, reinfusion of the previously harvested cells. These haematopoietic progenitor cells are capable of giving rise to all types of blood cells normally produced by the bone marrow.

“Surgery can cure”, said Markus Büchler, director of the newly opened Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre, in Lisbon, during his talk. Büchler was referring to a form of pancreatic cancer surgery called the “triangle operation”, which he invented and developed.

The Champalimaud Foundation's Breast Cancer Research Programme is made up of groups dedicated to all aspects related to the disease, from diagnosis to treatment. The goal is to improve the quality of life and survival of patients by utilising cutting-edge technologies that combine new techniques and methods with clinical practice to better serve patients.

Natural ageing is one of the main risk factors for cancer. As we become older, the probability of developing cancer increases. This happens, on the one hand, because the probability of acquiring cancer-causing mutations grows as we live longer; and on the other, because our DNA repair mechanisms decline with age.

Here are some recurrent unproven claims:

Experts from two international nuclear medicine societies (EANM and SNMMI) have joined those from important societies of various other medical specialities involved in the care of breast cancer patients – including oncology, surgery, radio-oncology and breast imaging – to draw up a set of recommendations, based on scientific evidence, on the correct utilisation, in breast cancer, of a medical imaging exam. The exam in question has been used for several years and involves radioactive substances, in this case a glucose analogue called fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).