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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.
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.
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