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

- 400 New breast cancer cases treated per year
- 24 Breast multidisciplinarity team members
Clinical Director: José Luis Fougo, MD, MSc, PhD
The Breast Unit activity effectively started in 1997, with the main goal of integrate diagnosis and treatment. In 2008 the name and status changed from Breast Unit to Breast Center - Hospital São João, being now an independent, multidisciplinary, one-stop center. It is the fourth busiest Breast Center in Portugal. 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 high-risk clinics, neo-adjuvant chemotherapy concept, senior patients (>75), axillary management and on aesthetic result of breast cancer conservative treatment. The Hospital de São João is recognized as the best portuguese hospital and it's Faculty of Medicine is the most requested by the portuguese medical students. From September 2017, the Breast Centre is a EUSOMA (European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists)/Breast Centres Centification certified unit.
CERTIFICATION(S) ACCREDITATION(S)
BCCERT - Breast Centres CertificationExpiration date: 03 September 2019 | |
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Centro de Mama - Hospital de S. João
Alameda do Prof. Mernâni Monteiro
4200-319 Porto,
Phone: +351220919009
Fax: +351220919009
E-mail: centrodemama@chsj.min-saude.pt
Web-site: http://portal-chsj.min-saude.pt/pages/565
Last modified: 09 April 2018