Centro de Mama - Hospital de S. João - Porto, Portugal

- 300 New breast cancer cases treated per year
- 16 Breast multidisciplinarity team members
Clinical Director: José Luis Fougo, MD, MSc
The Breast Unit started effectively in 1997, with the main goal of better diagnosis and treatment for breast patients. In 2009 the name and status changed from Breast Unit to Breast Center - Hospital S. João, being now an independent Center with administrative and budget independence. The Center has pre-graduate and post-graduate teaching students and all specialities residents training and working within the center. Oral presentations, posters, and publications as well as clinical investigation works are also of high interests. Team members works on prognostic factors and our major investigation is on aesthetic result of breast cancer conservative treatment. We are working on the development of an objective assessment tool the BCCT.core software (http://breastcancer.up.pt/).
Centro de Mama - Hospital de S. João
Alameda do Prof. Mernâni Monteiro
4200-319 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351220919009
Fax: +351220919009
E-mail: joseluis.fougo@hsjoao.min-saude.pt
Web-site: www.hsjoao.min-saude.pt/gpm
