Study opens to identify risk of breast cancer in young women
Lisbon’s CHULN university hospital centre is taking part in a European study to identify the risk of breast cancer in young women through a genetic test being developed by an
Loulé Hospital marks World Breast Cancer Day
Hospital presents Breast Unit and promotes Pink Talk on World Breast Cancer Day. To mark World Breast Cancer Day today, Loulé Hospital is organising a Pink Talk and presenting its
Study offers structured post-Covid recovery plan for cancer response
Confirms pandemic’s multiple impacts on cancer care A study by the University of Porto on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cancer patients recommends a structured recovery plan involving
Cancer-villages take State to court
Delays in decontamination of homes near former uranium mines “have gone on far too long” The long-running battle to get the Portuguese State to do as it pledged and ‘decontaminate’
Breast cancer diagnosis breakthrough at Porto’s ISEP
Investigators at Porto’s ISEP (institute of superior engineering) have developed a ‘colorimetric device on paper’ which, with a simple drop of a patient’s blood, can detect “within minutes” whether they
Porto researchers develop non-invasive method to diagnose lung cancer
Researchers at the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) in Porto have developed a non-invasive technique that allows the diagnosis of lung cancer. Using three-dimensional
Algarve Oncology Association hosts second MOV.On walk/run in Castro Marim
The Algarve Oncology Association (AOA) is preparing to host the second edition of ‘MOV.On’, a new event that encourages people to take part in a walk/run either in person or
Cancer-linked chemical to be used on Aljezur riverbanks: citizens “very unhappy”
A meeting on Thursday night broke up in Aljezur with the citizens who pushed for it less than reassured. They had requested the session after learning that the Câmara plans
Mar Shopping to host free breast cancer screenings
Mar Shopping Algarve in Loulé will host free breast cancer screenings on Sunday, October 31, between 11am and 7pm, near the shopping centre’s pharmacy and HPA health clinic. “Mar Shopping
Pioneering Botton-Champalimaud Centre for Pancreatic Cancer officially opens in Lisbon
The promise of an advance, finally, in the treatment and combat of one of the world’s most lethal forms of cancer solidified yesterday with the inauguration of the riverside Botton-Champalimaud