Road to a Cure - ABC with Dr. Fatima Cardoso
In the sixth episode in our Road to a Cure series, the Our MBC Life team interviews Dr. Fatima Cardoso, director of the breast unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Center in Lisbon, Portugal. She spent the early part of her medical career in Belgium but returned to Portugal in October 2010 to create the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Center, leading it to become the first certified breast unit in Portugal.
Recognizing that MBC, or the term she prefers Advanced Breast Cancer, was a disease that was often neglected in favor of finding new treatments for early breast cancer, Dr Cardoso was instrumental in establishing the biennial ABC conferences, the first of which took place in 2011 in Lisbon. In 2016 she launched the ABC Global Alliance in Paris to continue the work of the conferences. Since then membership has grown; currently there are 177 members (scientific institutions, patient advocacy organisations, individuals and companies) in 84 countries around the world. Dr. Cardoso currently serves as president of the Advanced Breast Cancer Global Alliance and of the ABC International Consensus Guidelines Conference.
“Do I believe that metastatic breast cancer can be cured? I believe that one day possibly some of the subtypes of breast cancer will be able to be cured. I don't think it will be in the next 10 years, but I do believe that some of these subtypes can reach the possibility of really transforming itself into a chronic disease.”
Mentioned in this Episode
Lobular Breast Cancer (ILC)
Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance
Next Generation Sequencing and Liquid Biopsy
Molecular profiling - Caris Life Science
Oligometastatic Breast Cancer
Immunotherapy
Patients’ Avatars
Zebrafish Avatars towards Personalized Medicine—A Comparative Review between Avatar Models
