First session of the “Tratar o cancro por tu” initiative by Ipatimup, at the Rivoli Municipal Theatre in Porto. Lung cancer treatment.

Experts:

António Araújo, Oncologist, Director of the Medical Oncology Service at Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto

Bárbara Parente, Pulmonologist, Head of Pulmonology Service at the Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia

José Carlos Machado, Specialist in Molecular Genetics, Vice-President of Ipatimup, University Teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto (FMUP)

Manuel Sobrinho Simões, Pathologist, Founder and President of Ipatimup

Venceslau Hespanhol, Pulmonologist, Director of the Pulmonology Service at Centro Hospitalar de São João (CHSJ)

Participants:

Pedro Abrunhosa, Musician

Rui Moreira, Mayor of Porto

Moderation:

Miguel Soares, Journalist, Antena 1

Tiago Alves, Journalist, Antena 1

“The cursed word, ‘cancer.’ In the past, people were ashamed to say they had cancer or had survived it. That’s why I think ‘Tratar o cancro por tu’ is an important theme: to be able to say we’ve had it, have it, or might have it.”

– Rui Moreira, during the “Tratar o cancro por tu” initiative

“The worst cancer is the cancer of silence, the one that turns us inward and isolates us.”

– Pedro Abrunhosa, during the “Tratar o cancro por tu” initiative