Breast Units in Portugal:

Centro de Mama - Hospital de S. João

Porto, Portugal

400 New breast cancer cases treated per year
26 Breast multidisciplinarity team members

Radiologists, surgeons, pathologists, medical oncologists, radiotherapists and nurses

Clinical Director: José Luis Fougo, MD, MSc, PhD

The Breast Unit activity effectively started in 1997, with the main goal of integrating diagnosis and treatment. In 2008 the name and status changed from Breast Unit to Breast Center - Hospital São João is now an independent, multidisciplinary, one-stop centre. 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 centre. Oral presentations, posters, and publications, as well as clinical investigation works, are also of high interests. Team members work 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 its 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 Certification certified unit.

CERTIFICATION(S) ACCREDITATION(S)

BCCERT - Breast Centres Certification Expiration date: 07 February 2023

Certification document (eng lang.)