{"entity":{"id":"connaught-hospital-freetown","kind":"institution","name":"Connaught Hospital, Freetown","aka":["Connaught Teaching Hospital Complex","Connaught Hospital"],"tldr":"A teaching hospital in Freetown where people with breast cancer are seen in a specialist outpatient clinic and treated with surgery, chemotherapy and hormone therapy. Sierra Leone has no radiotherapy.","summary":"A retrospective study in BMC Cancer (2025) of 253 breast cancer patients seen at the specialist outpatient clinic of the Connaught Teaching Hospital Complex from 2018 to 2021 found a mean age of 47, about 47% presenting at stage IIIB and 13.8% with metastases; treatment included mastectomy (48%), neoadjuvant chemotherapy (29.2%), adjuvant chemotherapy (33.6%), hormone therapy (39.2%) and palliative care (14%), and about 15% refused or did not start treatment. The authors call for better pathology services and access to radiotherapy. IAEA DIRAC lists no radiotherapy centre in Sierra Leone. OnCo did not find the hospital's own website.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Cummings-John et al., breast cancer at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone (BMC Cancer 2025)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-13429-0"},{"label":"IAEA DIRAC: directory of radiotherapy centres","url":"https://dirac.iaea.org/Data/CountriesLight"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["sierra-leone-national-cancer-registry","pharmacy-board-sierra-leone"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Freetown","country":"SL","lat":8.489,"lng":-13.238,"institutionType":"hospital","programs":["Specialist outpatient breast cancer clinic","Surgery, chemotherapy and hormone therapy"]},"route":"/institutions/connaught-hospital-freetown/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"}],"institution":[{"id":"pharmacy-board-sierra-leone","kind":"institution","name":"Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL)","route":"/institutions/pharmacy-board-sierra-leone/"},{"id":"sierra-leone-national-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Sierra Leone National Cancer Registry","route":"/institutions/sierra-leone-national-cancer-registry/"}]}}