# Centre National d'Oncologie, Nouakchott (CNO)

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## TL;DR

Mauritania's national cancer centre in Nouakchott, created in 2009, with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and radioiodine treatment. The government's cancer plan says it treats cancer free of charge and greatly reduced the need to send patients abroad.

## Summary

The Plan national de lutte contre le cancer 2018 to 2022 says the CNO was created in 2009 after cancer had become 42% of medical evacuations abroad (441 of 1,366 in 2008, according to the national health insurance fund), with aims including cutting evacuations by 80% and guaranteeing free medicines for people without means. It credits the centre with reducing evacuations by more than 98% for chemotherapy and 100% for radiotherapy, reports about 2,080 patients treated by 30 August 2012, more than 1,000 patients a year, and 94% of care paid as care for the indigent against 6% by the insurance fund. It has chemotherapy, radiotherapy and radioiodine units, a nuclear medicine unit was under way, and the plan found no organised palliative care outside it. IAEA DIRAC lists three linear accelerators, one cobalt unit and brachytherapy, last updated in 2019. The Ithar charity association has an office inside the centre serving more than 3,600 registered patients, according to its UICC page.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: CNO; National Oncology Centre, Mauritania
- City: Nouakchott, MR
- Type: cancer-center

## Sources

- Plan national de lutte contre le cancer 2018 to 2022, Mauritania (PDF via ICCP): https://www.iccp-portal.org/sites/default/files/plans/MRT_B5_PLAN%20CANCER%20MAURITANIE%20VF%202018%20(1).pdf
- IAEA DIRAC: directory of radiotherapy centres: https://dirac.iaea.org/Data/CountriesLight
- UICC member page: Ithar Charity Association for Cancer Patients Care: https://www.uicc.org/membership/ithar-charity-association-cancer-patients-care

## Connected records

- institutions: [Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie, Mauritanie (CNAM)](https://onco.cc/institutions/cnam-mauritania/), [International Atomic Energy Agency: Rays of Hope](https://onco.cc/institutions/iaea/), [Ministère de la Santé, Mauritanie](https://onco.cc/institutions/mauritania-ministry-of-health/)

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