# Hospital Dr. Ayres de Menezes

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## TL;DR

The main hospital of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its doctors found that more than a third of the patients the country sent abroad for treatment from 2019 to 2025 had cancer.

## Summary

A descriptive study by doctors of Hospital Ayres de Menezes with researchers from IPO Porto (ecancermedicalscience 2026) reviewed the records of the Ministry of Health's Patient Evacuation Board for 2019 to 2025: of 1,066 evacuations, 413 (38.7%) were for cancer, most often breast (24.7%), prostate (17.9%) and cervical (9.4%) cancer, with a mean age of 48. The authors note that the country has no population-based cancer registry and call for one. IAEA DIRAC lists no radiotherapy centre in São Tomé and Príncipe. The coordinates are an approximate São Tomé city point.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Hospital Ayres de Menezes; HAM; Ayres de Menezes Hospital
- City: São Tomé, ST
- Type: hospital

## Sources

- David et al., cancer among medical evacuees from São Tomé and Príncipe 2019 to 2025 (ecancermedicalscience 2026): https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2026.2093
- IAEA DIRAC: directory of radiotherapy centres: https://dirac.iaea.org/Data/CountriesLight

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- institutions: [Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil](https://onco.cc/institutions/ipo-porto/)

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