{"entity":{"id":"erdogan-hospital-mogadishu","kind":"institution","name":"Somalia Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital","aka":["Erdoğan Hospital","Digfer Hospital","Somalia Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Education and Research Hospital"],"tldr":"A public teaching and research hospital in Mogadishu. A study of its pathology records from 2017 to 2020 found cancer of the gullet to be the commonest cancer among 1,306 patients.","summary":"The Somalia Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital in Mogadishu. A retrospective study by its staff, whose affiliation is given as the University of Health Sciences, in Cancer Management and Research (2020) reviewed 5,238 pathology reports from 2017 to 2020 and included 1,306 confirmed cancers: oesophageal cancer was the commonest overall (21.7 per cent, 91.1 per cent of them squamous cell carcinoma), followed by liver cancer (7.6 per cent), breast cancer (7.3 per cent) and cervical cancer (6.7 per cent); 5.1 per cent of patients were under 18. OnCo did not find a primary source describing the hospital's current cancer treatment services. The coordinates are the OpenStreetMap point for the hospital.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Cancer incidence and distribution at a tertiary care hospital in Somalia from 2017 to 2020 (Cancer Management and Research 2020)","url":"https://doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S277202"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33061565/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer","cervical"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["somalia-ministry-of-health"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Mogadishu","country":"SO","lat":2.042,"lng":45.304,"institutionType":"hospital","programs":[]},"route":"/institutions/erdogan-hospital-mogadishu/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"id":"cervical","kind":"cancer","name":"Cervical cancer","route":"/cancers/cervical/"}],"institution":[{"id":"somalia-ministry-of-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministry of Health and Human Services, Federal Republic of Somalia","route":"/institutions/somalia-ministry-of-health/"}]}}