# Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas

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## TL;DR

Peru's national cancer institute, the largest cancer hospital in the Andean region and the coordinator of Peru's national cancer plan and registry.

## Summary

INEN was founded in Lima in 1939 as the Instituto Nacional del Cáncer and is Peru's national cancer institute and its largest oncology hospital, treating patients from across the country and coordinating the Plan Esperanza national cancer plan, the Lima metropolitan cancer registry and the network of regional cancer institutes in Trujillo, Arequipa and Concepción. It provides surgical, medical, radiation and paediatric oncology, nuclear medicine and bone marrow transplant, and its research department leads Latin American work on gastric cancer (Peru has among the region's highest rates), cervical cancer screening and HPV self-sampling, paediatric leukaemia outcomes, and clinical trials in breast and lung cancer, and it trains most Peruvian oncologists.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: INEN; INEN Peru
- City: Lima, PE
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://portal.inen.sld.pe

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Neoplastic_Diseases
- INEN: https://portal.inen.sld.pe

## Connected records

- technologies: [Brachytherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/), [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/), [Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries](https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/), [HPV & HBV vaccination](https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-vaccine/)
- institutions: [Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (Chile)](https://onco.cc/institutions/inc-chile/), [Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (Uruguay)](https://onco.cc/institutions/inca-uruguay/)
- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/gastric/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/)
- fronts: [Prevention & Risk](https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/), [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- people: [Francisco Berrospi Espinoza](https://onco.cc/people/francisco-berrospi-espinoza/)

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