Pink October is an annual, international health campaign to increase public awareness of breast cancer, educate the public about its symptoms and prevention and to raise funds for research to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure.

Contributing to public awareness, Professor Miguel Castanho was on the CNN Portugal, on October 23th, to clarify how the BREAST-BRAIN-N-BBB project can contribute to develop a novel anticancer drug to treat metastasis in the brain.