Maria João Cardoso, Breast Cancer Research Program Director at BCRP Champalimaud Foundation and International Coordinator of Cinderella Project, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Although my professional life is much more than a single project, Cinderella Project marked a true turning point. For the first time, patients were directly involved in predicting the aesthetic outcomes of their own breast cancer surgery. This has never been done before.
It opens a new path — for patients and for healthcare professionals – toward more transparent, informed, and shared decision-making.
It can be uncomfortable.
- For doctors, because it means confronting outcomes we cannot always anticipate.
- For patients, because it means seeing not only the best-case scenario, but also the possible downsides.
But CINDERELLA is a choice. It is a support tool — never an imposition.
What we are learning from these patient-generated data, images, and experiences goes far beyond a single study. It points to a future where real-world patient input continuously feeds knowledge, improves prediction, and helps others facing the same decisions. We will bring CINDERELLA to the world — responsibly, ethically, and together with those it is meant to serve.
Nothing could have been done without a A team Oreste Davide Gentilini, Orit Kaidar-Person , Prof. Dr. Timo Schinköthe , Jaime Cardoso , Oriana Ciani , Joerg Heil, André Pfob, MD Maciej Bobowicz Paweł Kabata MD, PhD , Marilia Antunes (and all the other CINDERELLA consortium members) and the support of my home team Helena Cruz , Eduard-Alexandru Bonci, Carlos Mavioso, Pedro Gouveia, David Pinto and of our Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) – Champalimaud Foundation at and our incredible outreach team Andreia Pinho, Catarina Ramos, Teresa Fernandes.”
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