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Filipa Fontes

Filipa Fontes

Collaborator

Research Line: L4 - Patient and Population Outcomes Research
Labs: Cancer Epidemiology
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Filipa Fontes has a degree in nursing (Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Santa Maria-Porto) and obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology (FMUP) with the thesis: “Patterns in prostate cancer mortality trends”. She is currently a PhD student in Public Health (FMUP) with the project entitled “The impact of neuropathic pain in health related quality of life and sleep quality of breast cancer patients”, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/92630/2013) and member of the Non-Communicable Diseases Epidemiology research group (EPIUnit-ISPUP). Her research interests are the study of the global burden of cancer, namely breast cancer, and its impact in patient-reported outcomes.

ORCID: 0000-0001-9246-589X

Articles

2022
Lopes C , Severo M , Fontes F , Lopes-Conceição L , Ferreira A , Pereira S , Lunet N , Araújo N
Trajectories of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms over Five Years since Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Results of the NEON-BC Prospective Study

Healthcare (Basel), 2022 Mar 31;10(4):661. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10040661.

2022
Lopes C , Lopes-Conceição L , Fontes F , Ferreira A , Pereira S , Lunet N , Araújo N
Prevalence and Persistence of Anxiety and Depression over Five Years since Breast Cancer Diagnosis-The NEON-BC Prospective Study

, 2022 Mar 21;29(3):2141-2153. doi: 10.3390/curroncol29030173.

2021
Araújo N , Lopes-Conceição L , Morais S , Fontes F , Dias T , Tedim Cruz V , Ruano L , Pereira S , Lunet N
Interchangeability of two versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for the longitudinal evaluation of patients with breast cancer

Support Care Cancer, 2021 Nov 24. doi: 10.1007/s00520-021-06702-y. Online ahead of print.

2021
Morais S , Antunes L , Rodrigues J , Fontes F , Bento MJ , Lunet N
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer screening.

Eur J Cancer Prev, 2021 Aug 26. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000720. Online ahead of print.

2021
Morais S , Antunes L , Rodrigues J , Fontes F , Bento MJ , Lunet N
The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Northern Portugal

Eur J Cancer Prev, 2021 Jul 8. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000686. Online ahead of print.

2021
Araújo N , Severo M , Conceição L , Fontes F , Dias T , Branco M , Morais S , Tedim Cruz V , Ruano L , Pereira S , Lunet N
Trajectories of cognitive performance over five years in a prospective cohort of patients with breast cancer (NEON-BC).

Breast, 2021 May 15;58:130-137. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2021.05.006. Online ahead of print.

2021
Morais S , Antunes L , Rodrigues J , Fontes F , Bento MJ , Lunet N
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the short-term survival of patients with cancer in Northern Portugal.

Int J Cancer, 2021 Feb 26. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33532. Online ahead of print.

2020
Brandão M , Morais S , Lopes-Conceição L , Fontes F , Araújo N , Dias T, Pereira D, Borges M , Pereira S , Lunet N
Healthcare use and costs in early breast cancer: a patient-level data analysis according to stage and breast cancer subtype.

ESMO Open, 2020 Nov;5(6):e000984. doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2020-000984.

2020
Lopes-Conceição L , Brandão M , Araújo N , Dias T , Peleteiro B , Fontes F , Pereira S , Lunet N
Quality of life trajectories in breast cancer patients: an updated analysis 5 years after diagnosis

J Public Health (Oxf), 2020 Aug 5:fdaa118. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa118. Online ahead of print.

2020
Morais S , Costa AR , Lopes-Conceição L , Brandão M , Borges M , Araújo N , Dias T , Fontes F , Pereira S , Lunet N
Treatment and Other Healthcare Use of Breast Cancer Patients With a Previous Cancer Diagnosis.

Anticancer Res, 2020 Feb;40(2):1041-1048. doi: 10.21873/anticanres.14040.

2019
Lopes-Conceição L , Brandão M , Araújo N , Severo M , Dias T , Peleteiro B , Fontes F , Pereira S , Lunet N
Quality of life trajectories during the first three years after diagnosis of breast cancer: the NEON-BC study.

J Public Health (Oxf), 2019 Dec 27. pii: fdz159. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdz159. [Epub ahead of print]

2019
Monteiro I , Morais S , Costa AR , Lopes-Conceição L , Araújo N , Fontes F , Dias T , Pereira S , Lunet N
Changes in employment status up to 5 years after breast cancer diagnosis: A prospective cohort study.

Breast, 2019 Jul 31;48:38-44. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2019.07.007. [Epub ahead of print]

2019
Fontes F , Damasceno A , Jessen N , Prista A , Silva-Matos C , Padrão P , Lunet N
Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mozambique in 2005 and 2015.

Public Health Nutr, 2019 Aug 27:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019002325. [Epub ahead of print]

2019
Barbosa A , Costa AR , Fontes F , Dias T , Pereira S , Lunet N
Changes in health behaviours and body mass index after a breast cancer diagnosis: results from a prospective cohort study.

Eur J Cancer Prev, 2019 Jul;28(4):330-337. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000469.

2019
Factors associated with time to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in unscreened women in Portugal.

Women Health, 2019 Jul;59(6):601-614. doi: 10.1080/03630242.2018.1539430. Epub 2018 Nov 21.

2019
Carrilho C , Fontes F , Tulsidás S , Lorenzoni C , Ferro J , Brandão M , Ferro A , Lunet N
Cancer incidence in Mozambique in 2015-2016: data from the Maputo Central Hospital Cancer Registry.

Eur J Cancer Prev, 2019 Jul;28(4):373-376. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000457.

2017
Pereira S , Fontes F , Sonin T , Dias T , Fragoso M , Castro-Lopes J , Lunet N
Neuropathic pain after breast cancer treatment: characterization and risk factors.

J Pain Symptom Manage, 2017 Aug 7. pii: S0885-3924(17)30335-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.04.011. [Epub ahead of print]

2017
The impact of breast cancer treatments on sleep quality 1 year after cancer diagnosis.

Support Care Cancer, 2017 Jun 16. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-3777-6. [Epub ahead of print]

2017
Trajectories of sleep quality during the first three years after breast cancer diagnosis.

Sleep Med, 2017 Jun;34:193-199. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.03.022. Epub 2017 Apr 4.

Books

Book Chapters

Notices/Letters to the Editor

2017
Ruano L , Pereira S , Fontes F , Ramalho M , Nuno Lunet
Reply to H. Ian Robins.

Breast, 2017 Aug;34:135. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2017.03.007. Epub 2017 Mar 24.

Reports