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Cabo Verde's health ministry. It runs the national cancer prevention and control programme, opened an oncology service at the Praia hospital and in 2023 launched breast cancer early diagnosis in primary care.
In February 2023 the ministry said cancers were the third cause of death in Cabo Verde, and that through the National Health Directorate's cancer programme and its hospitals it had opened a 10-bed oncology service for chemotherapy at Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto, a molecular biology laboratory there, a national strategic cancer plan for 2018 to 2022, a cancer registry, and work toward an oncology day hospital at Hospital Dr. Baptista de Sousa. It credited the Oncologia Cabo Verde project with an 80% rise in cancer operations, an 18% rise in chemotherapy sessions and 30% fewer evacuations to Portugal between 2017 and 2020. On 26 October 2023 it launched a breast cancer early diagnosis programme in primary care, aiming to reduce advanced-stage diagnoses by 10%; the national health director said provisional 2022 data counted almost 500 cancer cases. The coordinates are an approximate Praia city point.
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