Function
How the body moves, supports activity, and returns to daily tasks.
Making recovery visible
Surgery saves lives. Recovery shapes them.
BONANÇA is a research-driven platform for understanding life after surgery through recovery, function, sensation, and quality of life.
Its first product, BONANÇA MAP, begins with breast reconstruction recovery tracking while building toward a broader future in surgical outcomes research.
Bonança is a Portuguese word for calm after the storm.
Mission
We make recovery visible.
Surgery is often evaluated through what can be seen in the operating room, the pathology report, or the complication record. Those measures matter. They are not the whole story.
Recovery continues after discharge, across sensation, function, confidence, independence, intimacy, and daily life. BONANÇA exists to give that lived recovery a serious framework.
Why BONANÇA
Recovery deserves to be measured differently.
Traditional surgical outcomes are essential. Survival, complications, margins, recurrence, and technical success define standards of care and guide clinical judgment.
They are not, however, the whole story. After surgery, patients continue to live with changes in sensation, function, comfort, confidence, independence, and quality of life. BONANÇA studies those dimensions with the seriousness they deserve.
What isn't measured
What happens after surgery matters.
Surgeons measure
- Survival
- Complications
- Margins
- Technical success
Patients live with
- Sensation
- Function
- Confidence
- Independence
- Intimacy
- Everyday life
These outcomes matter too.
Bonança Framework
Four dimensions of recovery.
Sensation
How touch, temperature, pain, comfort, numbness, and sensitivity change over time.
Recovery
How people adapt physically, emotionally, and practically after treatment.
Quality of Life
How surgery affects confidence, relationships, independence, and everyday life.
Platform overview
The BONANÇA ecosystem
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Bonança Research
Projects, abstracts, collaborations, and research interests in recovery outcomes.
02BONANÇA MAP
Product #1: breast reconstruction recovery tracking in the browser.
Bonança Index
An exploratory recovery index combining sensation, symptoms, comfort, and quality of life.
Bonança Registry
Future anonymous contribution of recovery outcomes data for research.
05Bonança Fit
Future recovery garment and bra guidance after surgery.
Bonança Notes
Monthly reflections on recovery, surgery, sensation, function, and quality of life.
First tool
BONANÇA MAP begins with breast reconstruction.
Breast Reconstruction Recovery Tracking brings region-level sensation, symptoms, clinical events, recovery goals, and quality of life into one local-first prototype.
The anatomical model supports left, right, and bilateral views, with region-level data prepared for future heatmaps and comparison views.
Open Bonança MapFuture vision
A long-term platform for recovery outcomes.
BONANÇA is being developed as an editorial, research-driven platform for education, recovery tracking, patient-reported outcomes, and future anonymous registry infrastructure. The goal is not to replace clinical care, but to make recovery easier to study, discuss, and improve.
- research-grade recovery outcomes registry
- sensation and quality-of-life tracking
- functional recovery tools
- local-first patient records
- future specialty-specific maps
Founder
Founded by Beatriz Polita
Beatriz Polita, MD
- Physician
- Surgical Oncology
- Reconstructive Surgery
- Breast Reconstruction Research
Beatriz Polita is a physician with interests in surgical oncology, reconstructive surgery, sensation recovery, and quality of life after treatment.
BONANÇA began from a simple question: after surgery, how do patients recover, feel, function, adapt, and return to their lives?
Research Interests
- Sensation recovery
- Quality of life
- Breast reconstruction
- Patient-reported outcomes
- Recovery science
Research & Speaking
Scientific credibility, built in public.
BONANÇA is shaped by surgical training, research questions, conference presentations, and the long-term ambition to make recovery outcomes easier to study.
Featured presentation
Conference Presentation
Presenting research focused on recovery, reconstruction, and patient outcomes.
Publications
Future peer-reviewed manuscripts and research outputs.
Presentations
Conference talks, slide decks, and educational materials.
Conference Talks
Invited talks, podium presentations, and recorded lectures.
Research Interests
Sensation, reconstruction, quality of life, and patient-reported outcomes.
Future Projects
Planned studies and collaborations in surgical recovery science.
Research
Recovery, studied seriously.
Research interests include breast reconstruction, sensation recovery, neurotization, patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, and surgical oncology.
View research sectionBonança Notes
Monthly reflections on life after surgery.
Notes on recovery, surgery, sensation, function, quality of life, and the research questions shaping BONANÇA.