Humanised Integrative Oncology

Care that Welcomes,
Science that Strengthens

Integrative oncology by teleconsultation in Portugal, supporting your symptoms, quality of life and informed decisions alongside your treating team.

Medicine
Mind
Body
Nutrition

Fragmented care leaves gaps

we bring the pillars of your health together

ALTHARA

Science and Humanity

Our Mission

Integrative Care with Rigour and Continuity

We support people living with cancer throughout their journey, alongside their treating team, with integrative supportive care that combines clinical rigour, time and continuity.

Scientific Rigour

Recommendations grounded in international guidelines and the evidence on integrative care, always adapted to each person's clinical context.

Clinical Coordination

Supportive care that complements the oncology plan set by your treating team, respecting the clinical decisions already in place.

Continuity

Support adjusted to every phase of the journey, from active treatment through to recovery and follow-up.

How We Work

From Listening to a Support Plan

Appointments with time to listen, understand your priorities and build an individual plan, always alongside the oncology plan already underway.

Active Listening

Your concerns, values and goals shape the support plan, so that your care responds to what matters most at each stage.

Unhurried Appointments

Time to understand your clinical history, symptoms, priorities and the context of your life.

A Coordinated Plan

A support plan built alongside your treating team, bringing together the medical, nutritional, psychological and exercise perspectives to respond to each person's clinical context and priorities.

The Althara Platform

Your care continues between appointments

After every appointment, a secure portal holds the plans set for your integrative oncology care.

Messages, lab results, imaging and next steps are organised in one place, so you know what was agreed, can follow your progress and can reach the Althara team, always alongside your treating team.

Care organised for every phase

The portal turns clinical guidance into clear next steps that are easy to follow throughout your journey.

Priorities and next steps
Plans published by the team
Secure messages and updates
Appointments, lab results and imaging

Patient portal

A simple way to carry your care forward

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Home screen of the Althara patient portal showing priorities, care plan and next appointment.
Home

The starting point of your care

Today's priorities, your next appointment and the plan published by the clinical team all appear in one place.

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Nutrition and supplementation plan screen of the Althara patient portal.
Plan

Plans published with clinical context

Nutrition, supplementation and other supportive plans appear with limits, review dates and clear guidance from the team.

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Althara patient portal screen showing the devices available to connect: Withings, Google Health, Oura Ring and WHOOP.
Devices

Your Oura, WHOOP or scale plugs into your care

Oura Ring, WHOOP, Withings and Google Health connect in one click. Sleep, heart rate, activity and weight arrive on their own — and you decide what your clinical team sees.

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Chart in the Althara patient portal overlaying sleep time, steps, C-reactive protein and vitamin D on one timeline, with treatment events marked.
Trends

What your ring measures, next to your lab results

Sleep and steps overlaid on C-reactive protein and vitamin D on a single timeline, with consultations and protocol changes marked. No longer yesterday's number: the trajectory of your treatment.

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Messages screen of the Althara patient portal showing secure communication and an appointment request.
Support

Protected communication with the team

Messages, appointment requests and questions stay organised in one secure channel between appointments.

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Therapeutic exercise screen of the Althara patient portal showing sessions, safety and logs.
Exercise

Therapeutic sessions published by the team

The exercise plan shows your next action, safety limits, logs and clinical review.

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Psychological support screen of the Althara patient portal showing a guided practice, safety and check-ins.
Psychology

Structured psychological support

Guided protocols help you keep track of practices, check-ins and signs the team should know about.

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Home/1 of 7

The portal does not replace emergency care or the follow-up provided by your treating oncology team. It exists to make supportive care clearer, safer and more continuous.

The clinical team

Who Cares for You

Sara Simões

Dra Sara Simões

Radioncologista / Oncologia Integrativa

Fundadora da Althara e Médica Radioncologista dedicada à Oncologia Integrativa, com a missão pessoal de ser o porto de abrigo e a clareza científica que cada doente oncológico merece encontrar.

Cristiana Lopes

Cristiana Lopes

Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde

Psicóloga Clínica e da Saúde, mais de 20 anos de experiência e paixão pela Psico-oncologia, compromisso de cuidar, caminhar, desafiar cada doente oncológico a descobrir em si o sentido pleno da vida.

Marisa Franco

Marisa Franco

Profissional de exercício físico / Reabilitação em contexto oncológico

A Marisa Franco é licenciada em Ciências do Desporto com especialização em Reabilitação, uma profissional de exercício físico com vasta experiência em prescrição, acompanhamento e promoção da saúde.

Mariluce Carvalho

Mariluce Carvalho

Mestre em Oncologia

A Mariluce une rigor científico e cuidado humanizado para oferecer suporte nutricional seguro e acolhedor ao paciente oncológico

Our Name

Althea + Ara

Althara comes from joining Althea, a name of Greek origin that evokes care, with ara, the Latin word for altar: a place of presence, support and protection.

That union guides how we work: science to decide with rigour, and presence to accompany each person.

Read our story

How can we help?

We are here to listen and to welcome you. Take the first step.

(+351) 915100586
info@althara.pt

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