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.

In this video, Radiation Oncologist Javier Morales, of the Champalimaud Foundation’s (CF) Breast Unit, describes state-of-the-art breast radiotherapy treatments and equipment in use at the CF, also referring to the multidisciplinarity and personalisation of patient care. 

In this video, Radiologist Celeste Alves, who leads the Breast Unit's Radiology Service at the Champalimaud Foundation, talks about the central role of breast radiology in the Unit’s activities, be they clinical services or research projects.

Cancer survival is estimated by cancer survival rates, which represent the percentage of people who survive a certain type of cancer for a specific amount of time. The most common are the five-year and 10-year survival rates.

Many of the most commonly diagnosed cancers have 10-year survival of 50% or more. More than 80% of people diagnosed with cancer types which are easier to diagnose and/or treat survive their cancer for ten years or more.

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.

Chemotherapy is the most conventional treatment against cancer. It uses medication to kill cells, and in particular cancer cells. But it does not target cancer cells specifically. It can be used by itself or in combination with other treatments, such as radiotherapy (see below) or surgery, to make them more effective.

Chemotherapy is usually administered intravenously at a hospital in the course of several sessions, but it can also consist of tablets taken at home. It can include one drug or a combination of drugs.

Adjuvant cancer treatments are the most conventional, most classic therapeutic approach to cancer. Here, the first step is usually surgery to remove the tumour, followed by chemotherapy, radiotherapy or other additional treatments to consolidate the surgery’s results.

Early diagnosis aims to detect cancer in its early stages when it is potentially curable. This can apply not only to people who already have symptoms of a given cancer, but also to those who, not having any symptom, are subject to known risk factors that justify this approach.

Mr. P. started to be followed at the smoking cessation consultation of the Champalimaud Foundation in mid-2018. He had been a smoker for 33 years, and in 2018, he smoked around one pack of cigarettes a day. His first attempt to quit failed, but Mr. P. never quit the consultation and never gave up on quitting smoking. He finally achieved his goal in mid-2020 through a multidisciplinary approach (including psychology and psychiatry consultations) – and, to this day, has never smoked again.